CR vs. XYL, DOV, IEX, SNA, PNR, GGG, NDSN, SWK, ITT, and LECO
Should you be buying Crane stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crane include Xylem (XYL), Dover (DOV), IDEX (IEX), Snap-on (SNA), Pentair (PNR), Graco (GGG), Nordson (NDSN), Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), ITT (ITT), and Lincoln Electric (LECO). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.
Xylem (NYSE:XYL) and Crane (NYSE:CR) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.
Xylem pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Crane pays an annual dividend of $0.82 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Xylem pays out 51.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Crane pays out 22.0% 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. Xylem has raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years. Xylem is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Xylem received 89 more outperform votes than Crane when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.06% of users gave Xylem an outperform vote while only 59.56% of users gave Crane an outperform vote.
Xylem currently has a consensus target price of $144.58, suggesting a potential upside of 2.66%. Crane has a consensus target price of $145.50, suggesting a potential downside of 8.41%. Given Crane's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Xylem is more favorable than Crane.
Xylem has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Crane has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Xylem has higher revenue and earnings than Crane. Crane is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Xylem, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Crane has a net margin of 13.10% compared to Crane's net margin of 8.34%. Xylem's return on equity of 24.45% beat Crane's return on equity.
In the previous week, Crane had 17 more articles in the media than Xylem. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Crane and 12 mentions for Xylem. Crane's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Xylem's score of 0.16 indicating that Xylem is being referred to more favorably in the media.
88.0% of Xylem shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.1% of Crane shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Xylem shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of Crane shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Xylem beats Crane on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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