CXT vs. MAN, CNXC, ENV, PAGS, CBZ, CXM, BCO, NPO, EXPO, and DNB
Should you be buying Crane NXT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crane NXT include ManpowerGroup (MAN), Concentrix (CNXC), Envestnet (ENV), PagSeguro Digital (PAGS), CBIZ (CBZ), Sprinklr (CXM), Brink's (BCO), Enpro (NPO), Exponent (EXPO), and Dun & Bradstreet (DNB). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
ManpowerGroup (NYSE:MAN) and Crane NXT (NYSE:CXT) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
98.0% of ManpowerGroup shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.5% of Crane NXT shares are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of ManpowerGroup shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Crane NXT shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Crane NXT has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ManpowerGroup. Crane NXT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ManpowerGroup, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Crane NXT has a net margin of 13.53% compared to Crane NXT's net margin of 0.27%. ManpowerGroup's return on equity of 20.33% beat Crane NXT's return on equity.
ManpowerGroup currently has a consensus price target of $83.00, indicating a potential upside of 9.43%. Crane NXT has a consensus price target of $81.50, indicating a potential upside of 30.09%. Given ManpowerGroup's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Crane NXT is more favorable than ManpowerGroup.
ManpowerGroup received 562 more outperform votes than Crane NXT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave Crane NXT an outperform vote while only 64.11% of users gave ManpowerGroup an outperform vote.
ManpowerGroup pays an annual dividend of $2.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Crane NXT pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. ManpowerGroup pays out 303.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Crane NXT pays out 19.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ManpowerGroup has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years and Crane NXT has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. ManpowerGroup is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
ManpowerGroup has a beta of 1.54, meaning that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Crane NXT has a beta of 1.37, meaning that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, ManpowerGroup had 8 more articles in the media than Crane NXT. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for ManpowerGroup and 4 mentions for Crane NXT. ManpowerGroup's average media sentiment score of 1.31 beat Crane NXT's score of 0.06 indicating that Crane NXT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Crane NXT beats ManpowerGroup on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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