AYI vs. ROK, ENPH, GNRC, FELE, WIRE, ENS, BDC, BRC, VICR, and POWL
Should you be buying Acuity Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Acuity Brands include Rockwell Automation (ROK), Enphase Energy (ENPH), Generac (GNRC), Franklin Electric (FELE), Encore Wire (WIRE), EnerSys (ENS), Belden (BDC), Brady (BRC), Vicor (VICR), and Powell Industries (POWL). These companies are all part of the "electrical components & equipment" industry.
Rockwell Automation (NYSE:ROK) and Acuity Brands (NYSE:AYI) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends and risk.
Rockwell Automation currently has a consensus target price of $300.71, suggesting a potential upside of 8.48%. Acuity Brands has a consensus target price of $279.00, suggesting a potential upside of 12.32%. Given Rockwell Automation's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Acuity Brands is more favorable than Rockwell Automation.
Rockwell Automation has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Acuity Brands has a beta of 1.41, indicating that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Rockwell Automation has higher revenue and earnings than Acuity Brands. Acuity Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rockwell Automation, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Acuity Brands received 94 more outperform votes than Rockwell Automation when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.09% of users gave Acuity Brands an outperform vote while only 55.05% of users gave Rockwell Automation an outperform vote.
Rockwell Automation has a net margin of 13.19% compared to Rockwell Automation's net margin of 10.12%. Acuity Brands' return on equity of 34.83% beat Rockwell Automation's return on equity.
Rockwell Automation pays an annual dividend of $5.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Acuity Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Rockwell Automation pays out 48.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Acuity Brands pays out 4.9% 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. Rockwell Automation has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years. Rockwell Automation is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
75.8% of Rockwell Automation shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.2% of Acuity Brands shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Rockwell Automation shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Acuity Brands shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Rockwell Automation had 1 more articles in the media than Acuity Brands. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Rockwell Automation and 9 mentions for Acuity Brands. Rockwell Automation's average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat Acuity Brands' score of 0.90 indicating that Acuity Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Rockwell Automation beats Acuity Brands on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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