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ESAB vs. LECO, CRH, DCI, DOV, EXP, IR, ITT, PH, SYM, and BWXT

Should you be buying ESAB stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ESAB include Lincoln Electric (LECO), CRH (CRH), Donaldson (DCI), Dover (DOV), Eagle Materials (EXP), Ingersoll Rand (IR), ITT (ITT), Parker-Hannifin (PH), Symbotic (SYM), and BWX Technologies (BWXT).

ESAB vs. Its Competitors

Lincoln Electric (NASDAQ:LECO) and ESAB (NYSE:ESAB) are both industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment and valuation.

Lincoln Electric currently has a consensus price target of $222.60, indicating a potential downside of 1.58%. ESAB has a consensus price target of $138.89, indicating a potential upside of 4.71%. Given ESAB's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe ESAB is more favorable than Lincoln Electric.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Lincoln Electric
1 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.40
ESAB
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.63

Lincoln Electric has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ESAB has a beta of 1.26, suggesting that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Lincoln Electric$4.01B3.15$466.11M$8.1127.89
ESAB$2.74B2.93$264.84M$4.4429.88

Lincoln Electric pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. ESAB pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Lincoln Electric pays out 37.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ESAB pays out 9.0% 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. Lincoln Electric has raised its dividend for 30 consecutive years and ESAB has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Lincoln Electric is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Lincoln Electric has a net margin of 11.44% compared to ESAB's net margin of 9.98%. Lincoln Electric's return on equity of 39.44% beat ESAB's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Lincoln Electric11.44% 39.44% 14.75%
ESAB 9.98%16.98%7.69%

79.6% of Lincoln Electric shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.1% of ESAB shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Lincoln Electric shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.3% of ESAB shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

In the previous week, Lincoln Electric had 6 more articles in the media than ESAB. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Lincoln Electric and 9 mentions for ESAB. ESAB's average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat Lincoln Electric's score of 0.99 indicating that ESAB is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Lincoln Electric
8 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
ESAB
8 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Lincoln Electric beats ESAB on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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ESAB vs. The Competition

MetricESABMETAL PROC&FABR IndustryIndustrials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$8.03B$2.35B$7.73B$21.05B
Dividend Yield0.30%2.84%4.55%3.58%
P/E Ratio29.8424.1625.4627.79
Price / Sales2.9310.00104.4559.58
Price / Cash21.1912.7727.9723.00
Price / Book4.432.224.484.68
Net Income$264.84M$107.10M$795.63M$994.49M
7 Day Performance1.96%3.04%1.17%1.38%
1 Month Performance11.89%14.13%6.52%5.63%
1 Year Performance33.43%22.57%32.36%11.26%

ESAB Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ESAB
ESAB
2.8238 of 5 stars
$132.82
+0.6%
$138.89
+4.6%
+34.5%$8.06B$2.74B29.949,300Positive News
LECO
Lincoln Electric
3.8345 of 5 stars
$222.82
+0.0%
$206.40
-7.4%
+13.4%$12.44B$4.03B27.4712,000News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
Dividend Announcement
CRH
CRH
3.3692 of 5 stars
$94.84
-0.4%
$112.82
+19.0%
+22.0%$64.08B$35.80B20.0979,800Positive News
DCI
Donaldson
3.991 of 5 stars
$70.22
-0.5%
$70.00
-0.3%
-1.2%$8.18B$3.59B23.5614,000
DOV
Dover
4.8283 of 5 stars
$188.76
-0.1%
$208.58
+10.5%
+5.8%$25.88B$7.73B11.3724,000Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
EXP
Eagle Materials
4.5957 of 5 stars
$220.71
-1.2%
$254.44
+15.3%
-3.2%$7.20B$2.26B16.042,500Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
IR
Ingersoll Rand
4.275 of 5 stars
$87.69
-1.5%
$99.42
+13.4%
-9.2%$35.38B$7.28B43.4121,000Upcoming Earnings
Dividend Announcement
ITT
ITT
4.5774 of 5 stars
$158.11
+0.2%
$170.00
+7.5%
+16.1%$12.44B$3.63B25.1411,700Upcoming Earnings
PH
Parker-Hannifin
4.2908 of 5 stars
$712.31
-0.4%
$735.88
+3.3%
+38.0%$91.02B$19.93B27.4361,120Positive News
SYM
Symbotic
1.7746 of 5 stars
$47.54
+1.0%
$39.59
-16.7%
+47.6%$28.03B$2.07B-1,188.501,650Analyst Downgrade
Gap Down
BWXT
BWX Technologies
3.2176 of 5 stars
$138.82
+1.3%
$137.94
-0.6%
+43.7%$12.68B$2.70B44.218,700News Coverage
Positive News

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This page (NYSE:ESAB) was last updated on 7/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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