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Flowco (FLOC) Competitors

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$17.64 -0.19 (-1.07%)
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FLOC vs. ZWS, MOG.B, CHX, WHD, WFRD, HAYW, ATS, HSAI, EPAC, and SEI

Should you be buying Flowco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Flowco include Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (ZWS), Moog (MOG.B), ChampionX (CHX), Cactus (WHD), Weatherford International (WFRD), Hayward (HAYW), ATS (ATS), Hesai Group (HSAI), Enerpac Tool Group (EPAC), and Solaris Energy Infrastructure (SEI). These companies are all part of the "machinery" industry.

Flowco vs. Its Competitors

Flowco (NYSE:FLOC) and Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (NYSE:ZWS) are both manufacturing companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Flowco pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Zurn Elkay Water Solutions pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Flowco pays out 17.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Zurn Elkay Water Solutions pays out 36.4% 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. Zurn Elkay Water Solutions has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Flowco is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

In the previous week, Flowco had 5 more articles in the media than Zurn Elkay Water Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Flowco and 2 mentions for Zurn Elkay Water Solutions. Zurn Elkay Water Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.73 beat Flowco's score of 0.07 indicating that Zurn Elkay Water Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Flowco
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
7 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

Zurn Elkay Water Solutions has a net margin of 10.23% compared to Flowco's net margin of 0.00%. Zurn Elkay Water Solutions' return on equity of 14.03% beat Flowco's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
FlowcoN/A N/A N/A
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions 10.23%14.03%8.37%

Flowco has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Zurn Elkay Water Solutions. Flowco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Zurn Elkay Water Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Flowco$660.92M2.42$166.62M$1.849.59
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions$1.58B3.82$160.20M$0.9936.31

Flowco currently has a consensus price target of $32.40, suggesting a potential upside of 83.67%. Zurn Elkay Water Solutions has a consensus price target of $36.29, suggesting a potential upside of 0.93%. Given Flowco's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Flowco is more favorable than Zurn Elkay Water Solutions.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Flowco
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.29
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.43

83.3% of Zurn Elkay Water Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of Zurn Elkay Water Solutions shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Zurn Elkay Water Solutions received 18 more outperform votes than Flowco when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 90.00% of users gave Flowco an outperform vote while only 39.71% of users gave Zurn Elkay Water Solutions an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
FlowcoOutperform Votes
9
90.00%
Underperform Votes
1
10.00%
Zurn Elkay Water SolutionsOutperform Votes
27
39.71%
Underperform Votes
41
60.29%

Summary

Zurn Elkay Water Solutions beats Flowco on 11 of the 21 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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FLOC vs. The Competition

MetricFlowcoOil & gas field machinery IndustryManufacturing SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$1.60B$4.06B$2.04B$19.85B
Dividend Yield1.89%2.00%2.61%3.83%
P/E Ratio9.5912.1522.6435.64
Price / Sales2.421.4456.3945.93
Price / CashN/A10.5851.7217.51
Price / BookN/A1.792.124.85
Net Income$166.62M$161.92M-$292.00M$1.02B
7 Day Performance5.57%3.15%1.56%1.87%
1 Month Performance-22.50%1.51%12.96%2.97%
1 Year PerformanceN/A3.24%17.94%9.80%

Flowco Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
FLOC
Flowco
3.369 of 5 stars
$17.64
-1.1%
$32.40
+83.7%
N/A$1.60B$660.92M9.591,270
ZWS
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions
1.8392 of 5 stars
$36.52
+0.7%
$36.29
-0.6%
+19.6%$6.14B$1.58B39.682,700Positive News
MOG.B
Moog
N/A$187.01
+3.2%
N/A+5.4%$5.90B$3.67B28.4614,000
CHX
ChampionX
3.3534 of 5 stars
$24.90
+2.4%
$37.67
+51.3%
-17.5%$4.77B$3.58B15.097,300Positive News
Dividend Announcement
WHD
Cactus
4.1668 of 5 stars
$45.69
+1.7%
$52.50
+14.9%
-10.9%$3.65B$1.14B16.221,200Positive News
WFRD
Weatherford International
4.6344 of 5 stars
$48.79
+4.2%
$96.63
+98.0%
-54.3%$3.54B$5.35B7.2617,700
HAYW
Hayward
3.418 of 5 stars
$14.08
-0.7%
$17.13
+21.7%
+7.3%$3.04B$1.07B33.512,000Trending News
ATS
ATS
0.9848 of 5 stars
$30.15
+1.3%
$30.50
+1.2%
-4.8%$2.94B$2.53B45.687,000
HSAI
Hesai Group
1.5123 of 5 stars
$19.95
+1.9%
$22.80
+14.3%
+321.7%$2.60B$2.24B-45.141,122Positive News
Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↑
EPAC
Enerpac Tool Group
3.4653 of 5 stars
$43.42
+1.3%
$53.00
+22.1%
+14.0%$2.35B$599.83M26.472,200Positive News
SEI
Solaris Energy Infrastructure
4.7654 of 5 stars
$29.53
+8.8%
$43.00
+45.6%
N/A$2.00B$371.53M67.21338Positive News
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