SNA vs. POOL, FOX, PARAA, NWSA, H, FOXA, NWS, EDU, FWONA, and MGM
Should you be buying Snap-on stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Snap-on include Pool (POOL), FOX (FOX), Paramount Global (PARAA), News (NWSA), Hyatt Hotels (H), FOX (FOXA), News (NWS), New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU), Formula One Group (FWONA), and MGM Resorts International (MGM). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Pool (NASDAQ:POOL) and Snap-on (NYSE:SNA) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment and dividends.
In the previous week, Pool had 36 more articles in the media than Snap-on. MarketBeat recorded 88 mentions for Pool and 52 mentions for Snap-on. Pool's average media sentiment score of 0.18 beat Snap-on's score of 0.15 indicating that Snap-on is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Pool presently has a consensus target price of $391.80, suggesting a potential upside of 8.10%. Snap-on has a consensus target price of $316.75, suggesting a potential upside of 16.78%. Given Pool's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Snap-on is more favorable than Pool.
Snap-on has a net margin of 21.69% compared to Snap-on's net margin of 9.17%. Snap-on's return on equity of 35.49% beat Pool's return on equity.
99.0% of Pool shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.9% of Snap-on shares are held by institutional investors. 3.0% of Pool shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of Snap-on shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Pool received 58 more outperform votes than Snap-on when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.95% of users gave Pool an outperform vote while only 61.24% of users gave Snap-on an outperform vote.
Snap-on has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Pool. Snap-on is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pool, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pool has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Snap-on has a beta of 1, meaning that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Pool pays an annual dividend of $4.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Snap-on pays an annual dividend of $7.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Pool pays out 37.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Snap-on pays out 39.0% 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. Pool has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years and Snap-on has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years.
Summary
Pool and Snap-on tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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