ITT vs. IR, XYL, DOV, IEX, SNA, GGG, PNR, NDSN, SWK, and WWD
Should you be buying ITT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ITT include Ingersoll Rand (IR), Xylem (XYL), Dover (DOV), IDEX (IEX), Snap-on (SNA), Graco (GGG), Pentair (PNR), Nordson (NDSN), Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), and Woodward (WWD). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.
Ingersoll Rand (NYSE:IR) and ITT (NYSE:ITT) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and dividends.
Ingersoll Rand received 271 more outperform votes than ITT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.41% of users gave Ingersoll Rand an outperform vote while only 57.18% of users gave ITT an outperform vote.
Ingersoll Rand currently has a consensus target price of $95.82, indicating a potential upside of 6.86%. ITT has a consensus target price of $138.38, indicating a potential upside of 6.66%. Given ITT's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Ingersoll Rand is more favorable than ITT.
Ingersoll Rand has higher revenue and earnings than ITT. ITT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ingersoll Rand, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ingersoll Rand pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. ITT pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Ingersoll Rand pays out 4.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ITT pays out 25.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. ITT has increased its dividend for 9 consecutive years. ITT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
95.3% of Ingersoll Rand shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of ITT shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Ingersoll Rand shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of ITT shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Ingersoll Rand has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ITT has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ITT has a net margin of 12.41% compared to ITT's net margin of 11.85%. Ingersoll Rand's return on equity of 18.21% beat ITT's return on equity.
In the previous week, Ingersoll Rand had 10 more articles in the media than ITT. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Ingersoll Rand and 7 mentions for ITT. ITT's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Ingersoll Rand's score of 1.00 indicating that Ingersoll Rand is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Ingersoll Rand beats ITT on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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