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EMR vs. AIT, ALLE, AOS, AZZ, DOV, ETN, IR, ITT, PH, and ROP

Should you be buying Emerson Electric stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Emerson Electric include Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT), Allegion (ALLE), A. O. Smith (AOS), AZZ (AZZ), Dover (DOV), Eaton (ETN), Ingersoll Rand (IR), ITT (ITT), Parker-Hannifin (PH), and Roper Technologies (ROP).

Emerson Electric vs. Its Competitors

Applied Industrial Technologies (NYSE:AIT) and Emerson Electric (NYSE:EMR) are both industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends, media sentiment and profitability.

Emerson Electric has higher revenue and earnings than Applied Industrial Technologies. Applied Industrial Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Emerson Electric, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Applied Industrial Technologies$4.56B2.14$392.99M$10.1225.62
Emerson Electric$17.78B4.15$1.97B$4.6528.17

Applied Industrial Technologies pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Emerson Electric pays an annual dividend of $2.11 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Applied Industrial Technologies pays out 18.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Emerson Electric pays out 45.4% 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. Applied Industrial Technologies has raised its dividend for 16 consecutive years and Emerson Electric has raised its dividend for 68 consecutive years. Emerson Electric is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Applied Industrial Technologies currently has a consensus target price of $285.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.92%. Emerson Electric has a consensus target price of $142.39, suggesting a potential upside of 8.69%. Given Applied Industrial Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Applied Industrial Technologies is more favorable than Emerson Electric.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Applied Industrial Technologies
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.86
Emerson Electric
1 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
11 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.74

In the previous week, Emerson Electric had 24 more articles in the media than Applied Industrial Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 38 mentions for Emerson Electric and 14 mentions for Applied Industrial Technologies. Emerson Electric's average media sentiment score of 1.51 beat Applied Industrial Technologies' score of 1.40 indicating that Emerson Electric is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Applied Industrial Technologies
12 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Emerson Electric
34 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

Emerson Electric has a net margin of 14.92% compared to Applied Industrial Technologies' net margin of 8.61%. Applied Industrial Technologies' return on equity of 21.78% beat Emerson Electric's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Applied Industrial Technologies8.61% 21.78% 12.74%
Emerson Electric 14.92%14.34%7.79%

93.5% of Applied Industrial Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.3% of Emerson Electric shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Applied Industrial Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Emerson Electric shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Applied Industrial Technologies has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Emerson Electric has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Emerson Electric beats Applied Industrial Technologies on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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EMR vs. The Competition

MetricEmerson ElectricMACH IndustryIndustrials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$72.62B$25.38B$7.74B$21.52B
Dividend Yield1.56%0.93%4.57%3.50%
P/E Ratio28.1720.86305.8829.87
Price / Sales4.1529.17215.7952.41
Price / Cash14.5721.4428.9124.68
Price / Book2.734.134.634.54
Net Income$1.97B$702.35M$798.53M$999.97M
7 Day Performance-4.83%0.25%0.65%-0.18%
1 Month Performance-0.61%2.86%1.72%4.37%
1 Year Performance26.34%3.28%25.83%14.40%

Emerson Electric Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
EMR
Emerson Electric
4.624 of 5 stars
$131.01
+1.5%
$142.39
+8.7%
+26.0%$72.62B$17.78B28.1773,000Positive News
AIT
Applied Industrial Technologies
4.8482 of 5 stars
$265.81
+0.1%
$285.00
+7.2%
+21.5%$10.03B$4.56B26.276,800Positive News
ALLE
Allegion
4.7646 of 5 stars
$173.13
+0.7%
$166.75
-3.7%
+23.1%$14.86B$3.77B24.0514,400Positive News
Ex-Dividend
Analyst Forecast
AOS
A. O. Smith
4.7042 of 5 stars
$73.84
+0.2%
$77.43
+4.9%
-11.3%$10.35B$3.82B20.5712,700Trending News
Analyst Revision
AZZ
AZZ
3.9257 of 5 stars
$115.22
-1.5%
$112.29
-2.5%
+41.2%$3.46B$1.58B13.353,684Analyst Forecast
DOV
Dover
4.8866 of 5 stars
$177.86
+0.1%
$213.92
+20.3%
-9.0%$24.39B$7.75B10.7324,000Positive News
ETN
Eaton
4.6297 of 5 stars
$349.31
+0.1%
$379.10
+8.5%
+16.6%$135.98B$24.88B35.1494,000Trending News
Analyst Upgrade
Analyst Revision
IR
Ingersoll Rand
4.7492 of 5 stars
$80.26
-0.9%
$97.75
+21.8%
-16.1%$31.90B$7.24B62.7021,000Positive News
ITT
ITT
4.3583 of 5 stars
$173.12
+1.3%
$182.78
+5.6%
+29.1%$13.50B$3.63B27.2211,700Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
PH
Parker-Hannifin
4.6007 of 5 stars
$759.97
+0.2%
$770.94
+1.4%
+22.0%$97.11B$19.85B28.0257,950Positive News
ROP
Roper Technologies
N/A$523.43
+1.0%
$636.36
+21.6%
N/A$56.33B$7.47B36.5015,800Positive News

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