TKR vs. IEX, SNA, GGG, PNR, NDSN, SWK, WWD, LECO, ITT, and DCI
Should you be buying Timken stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Timken include IDEX (IEX), Snap-on (SNA), Graco (GGG), Pentair (PNR), Nordson (NDSN), Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), Woodward (WWD), Lincoln Electric (LECO), ITT (ITT), and Donaldson (DCI). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.
Timken (NYSE:TKR) and IDEX (NYSE:IEX) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking and earnings.
Timken has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IDEX has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
IDEX has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Timken. Timken is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IDEX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
IDEX has a net margin of 17.89% compared to Timken's net margin of 7.99%. Timken's return on equity of 17.98% beat IDEX's return on equity.
89.1% of Timken shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.0% of IDEX shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.7% of Timken shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of IDEX shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
IDEX received 59 more outperform votes than Timken when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.79% of users gave Timken an outperform vote while only 58.40% of users gave IDEX an outperform vote.
Timken pays an annual dividend of $1.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. IDEX pays an annual dividend of $2.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Timken pays out 25.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. IDEX pays out 36.3% 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. Timken is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Timken currently has a consensus target price of $87.91, indicating a potential upside of 5.13%. IDEX has a consensus target price of $250.71, indicating a potential upside of 23.71%. Given IDEX's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe IDEX is more favorable than Timken.
In the previous week, IDEX had 3 more articles in the media than Timken. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for IDEX and 4 mentions for Timken. IDEX's average media sentiment score of 1.54 beat Timken's score of 1.03 indicating that IDEX is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
IDEX beats Timken on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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