DE vs. CAT, PCAR, CMI, WAB, TTC, AGCO, OSK, FSS, TEX, and TRN
Should you be buying Deere & Company stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Deere & Company include Caterpillar (CAT), PACCAR (PCAR), Cummins (CMI), Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies (WAB), Toro (TTC), AGCO (AGCO), Oshkosh (OSK), Federal Signal (FSS), Terex (TEX), and Trinity Industries (TRN). These companies are all part of the "construction & farm machinery & heavy trucks" industry.
Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) and Deere & Company (NYSE:DE) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
Caterpillar has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Deere & Company has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
71.0% of Caterpillar shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.6% of Deere & Company shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Caterpillar shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Deere & Company shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Caterpillar has higher revenue and earnings than Deere & Company. Deere & Company is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Caterpillar, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Caterpillar had 10 more articles in the media than Deere & Company. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Caterpillar and 13 mentions for Deere & Company. Caterpillar's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Deere & Company's score of 0.77 indicating that Deere & Company is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Caterpillar currently has a consensus price target of $323.35, indicating a potential downside of 1.70%. Deere & Company has a consensus price target of $433.36, indicating a potential upside of 17.58%. Given Caterpillar's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Deere & Company is more favorable than Caterpillar.
Caterpillar has a net margin of 16.79% compared to Caterpillar's net margin of 16.15%. Deere & Company's return on equity of 58.61% beat Caterpillar's return on equity.
Caterpillar pays an annual dividend of $5.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Deere & Company pays an annual dividend of $5.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Caterpillar pays out 23.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Deere & Company pays out 17.7% 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. Caterpillar has raised its dividend for 29 consecutive years and Deere & Company has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Deere & Company is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Caterpillar received 35 more outperform votes than Deere & Company when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.30% of users gave Deere & Company an outperform vote while only 62.49% of users gave Caterpillar an outperform vote.
Summary
Caterpillar beats Deere & Company on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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