SWK vs. GGG, CNHI, PNR, AMCR, LECO, NDSN, AOS, PKG, ZBRA, and TTEK
Should you be buying Stanley Black & Decker stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Stanley Black & Decker include Graco (GGG), CNH Industrial (CNHI), Pentair (PNR), Amcor (AMCR), Lincoln Electric (LECO), Nordson (NDSN), A. O. Smith (AOS), Packaging Co. of America (PKG), Zebra Technologies (ZBRA), and Tetra Tech (TTEK). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Graco (NYSE:GGG) and Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE:SWK) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability and valuation.
Graco has a net margin of 23.15% compared to Graco's net margin of -0.66%. Stanley Black & Decker's return on equity of 23.01% beat Graco's return on equity.
Graco pays an annual dividend of $1.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Stanley Black & Decker pays an annual dividend of $3.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Graco pays out 35.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Stanley Black & Decker pays out -469.6% 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. Graco has increased its dividend for 28 consecutive years and Stanley Black & Decker has increased its dividend for 57 consecutive years. Stanley Black & Decker is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
93.9% of Graco shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.8% of Stanley Black & Decker shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of Graco shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Stanley Black & Decker shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Graco has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Stanley Black & Decker has a beta of 1.33, indicating that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Graco has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Stanley Black & Decker. Stanley Black & Decker is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Graco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Graco presently has a consensus price target of $88.25, indicating a potential upside of 6.30%. Stanley Black & Decker has a consensus price target of $97.00, indicating a potential upside of 7.63%. Given Graco's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Stanley Black & Decker is more favorable than Graco.
Stanley Black & Decker received 168 more outperform votes than Graco when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.86% of users gave Graco an outperform vote while only 59.74% of users gave Stanley Black & Decker an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Graco had 7 more articles in the media than Stanley Black & Decker. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Graco and 11 mentions for Stanley Black & Decker. Graco's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Stanley Black & Decker's score of 0.46 indicating that Stanley Black & Decker is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Graco beats Stanley Black & Decker on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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