PH vs. CTAS, ITW, EMR, JCI, GWW, FERG, ABBNY, XYL, DE, and ROK
Should you be buying Parker-Hannifin stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Parker-Hannifin include Cintas (CTAS), Illinois Tool Works (ITW), Emerson Electric (EMR), Johnson Controls International (JCI), W.W. Grainger (GWW), Ferguson (FERG), ABB (ABBNY), Xylem (XYL), Deere & Company (DE), and Rockwell Automation (ROK). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Parker-Hannifin (NYSE:PH) and Cintas (NASDAQ:CTAS) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, valuation, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Parker-Hannifin has higher revenue and earnings than Cintas. Parker-Hannifin is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cintas, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Parker-Hannifin pays an annual dividend of $6.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Cintas pays an annual dividend of $5.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Parker-Hannifin pays out 30.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cintas pays out 37.3% 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. Parker-Hannifin is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Cintas had 4 more articles in the media than Parker-Hannifin. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Cintas and 11 mentions for Parker-Hannifin. Parker-Hannifin's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat Cintas' score of 0.54 indicating that Parker-Hannifin is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Parker-Hannifin received 165 more outperform votes than Cintas when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.12% of users gave Parker-Hannifin an outperform vote while only 60.09% of users gave Cintas an outperform vote.
Cintas has a net margin of 15.98% compared to Parker-Hannifin's net margin of 13.95%. Cintas' return on equity of 37.19% beat Parker-Hannifin's return on equity.
82.4% of Parker-Hannifin shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.5% of Cintas shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Parker-Hannifin shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.9% of Cintas shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Parker-Hannifin currently has a consensus price target of $566.87, suggesting a potential upside of 7.46%. Cintas has a consensus price target of $664.07, suggesting a potential downside of 1.35%. Given Parker-Hannifin's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Parker-Hannifin is more favorable than Cintas.
Parker-Hannifin has a beta of 1.51, indicating that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cintas has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Parker-Hannifin beats Cintas on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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