CNHI vs. NDSN, GGG, SWK, ZBRA, PKG, LECO, PNR, AMCR, AOS, and AVY
Should you be buying CNH Industrial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CNH Industrial include Nordson (NDSN), Graco (GGG), Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), Zebra Technologies (ZBRA), Packaging Co. of America (PKG), Lincoln Electric (LECO), Pentair (PNR), Amcor (AMCR), A. O. Smith (AOS), and Avery Dennison (AVY). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Nordson (NASDAQ:NDSN) and CNH Industrial (NYSE:CNHI) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and community ranking.
In the previous week, CNH Industrial had 23 more articles in the media than Nordson. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for CNH Industrial and 3 mentions for Nordson. CNH Industrial's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Nordson's score of 0.48 indicating that Nordson is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Nordson has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, CNH Industrial has a beta of 1.65, suggesting that its stock price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500.
72.1% of Nordson shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.9% of CNH Industrial shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Nordson 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.
Nordson currently has a consensus price target of $278.00, suggesting a potential upside of 6.76%. CNH Industrial has a consensus price target of $15.20, suggesting a potential upside of 33.22%. Given Nordson's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe CNH Industrial is more favorable than Nordson.
Nordson received 158 more outperform votes than CNH Industrial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.43% of users gave Nordson an outperform vote while only 48.98% of users gave CNH Industrial an outperform vote.
CNH Industrial has higher revenue and earnings than Nordson. CNH Industrial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nordson, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Nordson has a net margin of 18.59% compared to Nordson's net margin of 9.60%. Nordson's return on equity of 29.59% beat CNH Industrial's return on equity.
Summary
Nordson beats CNH Industrial on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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