ALLE vs. IQV, ICLR, KSPI, RTO, Z, ZG, FTAI, CART, ULS, and GLOB
Should you be buying Allegion stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Allegion include IQVIA (IQV), ICON Public (ICLR), Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz (KSPI), Rentokil Initial (RTO), Zillow Group (Z), Zillow Group (ZG), FTAI Aviation (FTAI), Maplebear (CART), UL Solutions (ULS), and Globant (GLOB). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Allegion (NYSE:ALLE) and IQVIA (NYSE:IQV) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.
IQVIA has higher revenue and earnings than Allegion. Allegion is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IQVIA, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, IQVIA had 12 more articles in the media than Allegion. MarketBeat recorded 47 mentions for IQVIA and 35 mentions for Allegion. IQVIA's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Allegion's score of 0.51 indicating that IQVIA is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
IQVIA received 212 more outperform votes than Allegion when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.00% of users gave IQVIA an outperform vote while only 58.78% of users gave Allegion an outperform vote.
Allegion has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IQVIA has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Allegion currently has a consensus price target of $126.50, suggesting a potential downside of 7.55%. IQVIA has a consensus price target of $263.56, suggesting a potential upside of 9.97%. Given IQVIA's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe IQVIA is more favorable than Allegion.
92.2% of Allegion shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.6% of IQVIA shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Allegion shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of IQVIA shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Allegion has a net margin of 15.08% compared to IQVIA's net margin of 9.39%. Allegion's return on equity of 47.21% beat IQVIA's return on equity.
Summary
IQVIA beats Allegion on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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