FLS vs. GGG, IEX, TKR, AA, GTLS, MLI, ADT, ESAB, ATKR, and BERY
Should you be buying Flowserve stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Flowserve include Graco (GGG), IDEX (IEX), Timken (TKR), Alcoa (AA), Chart Industries (GTLS), Mueller Industries (MLI), ADT (ADT), ESAB (ESAB), Atkore (ATKR), and Berry Global Group (BERY). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Graco (NYSE:GGG) and Flowserve (NYSE:FLS) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking and profitability.
Graco currently has a consensus target price of $88.25, indicating a potential upside of 6.57%. Flowserve has a consensus target price of $51.55, indicating a potential upside of 7.06%. Given Graco's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Flowserve is more favorable than Graco.
Flowserve received 193 more outperform votes than Graco when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.83% of users gave Flowserve an outperform vote while only 60.86% of users gave Graco an outperform vote.
Graco has a net margin of 23.15% compared to Graco's net margin of 5.29%. Flowserve's return on equity of 23.01% beat Graco's return on equity.
In the previous week, Flowserve had 17 more articles in the media than Graco. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for Flowserve and 17 mentions for Graco. Graco's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Flowserve's score of 0.35 indicating that Flowserve is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
93.9% of Graco shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.9% of Flowserve shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Graco shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Flowserve shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Graco pays an annual dividend of $1.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Flowserve pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Graco pays out 35.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Flowserve pays out 47.5% 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. Graco has increased its dividend for 28 consecutive years and Flowserve has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Graco has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Flowserve. Flowserve is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Graco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Graco has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Flowserve has a beta of 1.42, suggesting that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Flowserve beats Graco on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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