DCI vs. CR, ROLL, RBC, AGCO, TTEK, GHM, IR, LASE, OPTT, and JKSM
Should you be buying Donaldson stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Donaldson include Crane (CR), RBC Bearings (ROLL), RBC Bearings (RBC), AGCO (AGCO), Tetra Tech (TTEK), Graham (GHM), Ingersoll Rand (IR), Laser Photonics (LASE), Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT), and Jacksam (JKSM).
Crane (NYSE:CR) and Donaldson (NYSE:DCI) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Crane presently has a consensus target price of $139.50, indicating a potential downside of 4.77%. Donaldson has a consensus target price of $67.50, indicating a potential downside of 8.06%. Given Donaldson's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Crane is more favorable than Donaldson.
Crane has a net margin of 13.10% compared to Crane's net margin of 10.82%. Crane's return on equity of 28.52% beat Donaldson's return on equity.
Crane has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Donaldson. Donaldson is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crane, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Crane pays an annual dividend of $0.82 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Donaldson pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Crane pays out 22.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Donaldson pays out 32.6% 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. Crane has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Donaldson has increased its dividend for 37 consecutive years. Donaldson is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Crane had 8 more articles in the media than Donaldson. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Crane and 16 mentions for Donaldson. Crane's average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat Donaldson's score of -0.12 indicating that Donaldson is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Crane has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Donaldson has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
75.1% of Crane shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.8% of Donaldson shares are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of Crane shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Donaldson shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Donaldson received 41 more outperform votes than Crane when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.69% of users gave Donaldson an outperform vote while only 59.44% of users gave Crane an outperform vote.
Summary
Donaldson beats Crane on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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