ROP vs. AME, FTV, KEYS, SNOW, CARR, MSI, MCHP, AMX, TEAM, and NTES
Should you be buying Roper Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Roper Technologies include AMETEK (AME), Fortive (FTV), Keysight Technologies (KEYS), Snowflake (SNOW), Carrier Global (CARR), Motorola Solutions (MSI), Microchip Technology (MCHP), América Móvil (AMX), Atlassian (TEAM), and NetEase (NTES). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
AMETEK (NYSE:AME) and Roper Technologies (NYSE:ROP) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, risk and earnings.
87.4% of AMETEK shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.3% of Roper Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of AMETEK shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Roper Technologies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
AMETEK has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Roper Technologies has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Roper Technologies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than AMETEK. AMETEK is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Roper Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, AMETEK had 9 more articles in the media than Roper Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for AMETEK and 10 mentions for Roper Technologies. AMETEK's average media sentiment score of 1.49 beat Roper Technologies' score of 0.98 indicating that Roper Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
AMETEK received 41 more outperform votes than Roper Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.18% of users gave AMETEK an outperform vote while only 65.24% of users gave Roper Technologies an outperform vote.
Roper Technologies has a net margin of 23.21% compared to Roper Technologies' net margin of 19.57%. Roper Technologies' return on equity of 17.74% beat AMETEK's return on equity.
AMETEK pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Roper Technologies pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. AMETEK pays out 19.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Roper Technologies pays out 21.8% 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. AMETEK has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years and Roper Technologies has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. AMETEK is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
AMETEK presently has a consensus target price of $179.80, suggesting a potential upside of 7.79%. Roper Technologies has a consensus target price of $584.82, suggesting a potential upside of 7.92%. Given AMETEK's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Roper Technologies is more favorable than AMETEK.
Summary
Roper Technologies beats AMETEK on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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