IR vs. WCN, URI, TTEK, DCI, CR, GHM, LASE, OPTT, JKSM, and NMHIW
Should you be buying Ingersoll Rand stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ingersoll Rand include Waste Connections (WCN), United Rentals (URI), Tetra Tech (TTEK), Donaldson (DCI), Crane (CR), Graham (GHM), Laser Photonics (LASE), Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT), Jacksam (JKSM), and Nature's Miracle (NMHIW).
Ingersoll Rand (NYSE:IR) and Waste Connections (NYSE:WCN) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
Ingersoll Rand has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Waste Connections. Ingersoll Rand is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Waste Connections, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Waste Connections had 3 more articles in the media than Ingersoll Rand. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Waste Connections and 8 mentions for Ingersoll Rand. Ingersoll Rand's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Waste Connections' score of 0.62 indicating that Ingersoll Rand is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ingersoll Rand currently has a consensus target price of $95.82, suggesting a potential upside of 1.06%. Waste Connections has a consensus target price of $179.94, suggesting a potential upside of 10.33%. Given Waste Connections' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Waste Connections is more favorable than Ingersoll Rand.
Waste Connections received 134 more outperform votes than Ingersoll Rand when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.16% of users gave Waste Connections an outperform vote while only 61.41% of users gave Ingersoll Rand an outperform vote.
Ingersoll Rand pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Waste Connections pays an annual dividend of $1.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Ingersoll Rand pays out 4.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Waste Connections pays out 37.0% 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.
Ingersoll Rand has a net margin of 11.85% compared to Waste Connections' net margin of 9.70%. Waste Connections' return on equity of 14.66% beat Ingersoll Rand's return on equity.
95.3% of Ingersoll Rand shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.1% of Waste Connections shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Ingersoll Rand shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Waste Connections 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.
Ingersoll Rand has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Waste Connections has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Waste Connections beats Ingersoll Rand on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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