ADT vs. BCO, ALLE, GFAI, SUGP, DOV, TS, HUBB, PKG, TRMB, and CNH
Should you be buying ADT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ADT include Brink's (BCO), Allegion (ALLE), Guardforce AI (GFAI), SU Group (SUGP), Dover (DOV), Tenaris (TS), Hubbell (HUBB), Packaging Co. of America (PKG), Trimble (TRMB), and CNH GLOBAL N V Foreign (CNH).
ADT vs.
ADT (NYSE:ADT) and Brink's (NYSE:BCO) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and risk.
87.2% of ADT shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.0% of Brink's shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of ADT shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Brink's shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
ADT has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Brink's. ADT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brink's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, ADT had 14 more articles in the media than Brink's. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for ADT and 5 mentions for Brink's. ADT's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Brink's' score of 0.51 indicating that ADT is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Brink's received 35 more outperform votes than ADT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.60% of users gave Brink's an outperform vote while only 63.65% of users gave ADT an outperform vote.
ADT has a net margin of 18.18% compared to Brink's' net margin of 2.37%. Brink's' return on equity of 71.46% beat ADT's return on equity.
ADT currently has a consensus target price of $9.05, suggesting a potential upside of 8.58%. Brink's has a consensus target price of $138.00, suggesting a potential upside of 61.57%. Given Brink's' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Brink's is more favorable than ADT.
ADT pays an annual dividend of $0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Brink's pays an annual dividend of $1.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. ADT pays out 37.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brink's pays out 27.6% 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. ADT has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Brink's has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years.
ADT has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brink's has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Brink's beats ADT on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:ADT) was last updated on 6/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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