AIMC vs. NDSN, ESAB, CR, ZWS, YOU, FELE, MLI, BDC, FLS, and ENS
Should you be buying Altra Industrial Motion stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Altra Industrial Motion include Nordson (NDSN), ESAB (ESAB), Crane (CR), Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (ZWS), Clear Secure (YOU), Franklin Electric (FELE), Mueller Industries (MLI), Belden (BDC), Flowserve (FLS), and EnerSys (ENS). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Altra Industrial Motion vs.
Nordson (NASDAQ:NDSN) and Altra Industrial Motion (NASDAQ:AIMC) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, risk and dividends.
Nordson has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Altra Industrial Motion has a beta of 2.14, indicating that its share price is 114% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Nordson has a net margin of 19.75% compared to Altra Industrial Motion's net margin of 6.53%. Nordson's return on equity of 22.40% beat Altra Industrial Motion's return on equity.
70.4% of Nordson shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.5% of Altra Industrial Motion shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Nordson shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Altra Industrial Motion shares are held 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.
Nordson has higher revenue and earnings than Altra Industrial Motion. Nordson is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Altra Industrial Motion, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Altra Industrial Motion received 20 more outperform votes than Nordson when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.84% of users gave Nordson an outperform vote while only 61.29% of users gave Altra Industrial Motion an outperform vote.
Nordson pays an annual dividend of $2.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Altra Industrial Motion pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Nordson pays out 29.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Altra Industrial Motion pays out 18.6% 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. Nordson has increased its dividend for 59 consecutive years and Altra Industrial Motion has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Nordson is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Nordson currently has a consensus target price of $252.20, suggesting a potential upside of 15.73%. Altra Industrial Motion has a consensus target price of $62.00, suggesting a potential upside of 0.03%. Given Nordson's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Nordson is more favorable than Altra Industrial Motion.
In the previous week, Nordson had 30 more articles in the media than Altra Industrial Motion. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Nordson and 1 mentions for Altra Industrial Motion. Altra Industrial Motion's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Nordson's score of 0.38 indicating that Altra Industrial Motion is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Nordson beats Altra Industrial Motion on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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