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FLS vs. DOV, SNA, PNR, GGG, IEX, WWD, ITT, RBC, NDSN, and LECO

Should you be buying Flowserve stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Flowserve include Dover (DOV), Snap-on (SNA), Pentair (PNR), Graco (GGG), IDEX (IEX), Woodward (WWD), ITT (ITT), RBC Bearings (RBC), Nordson (NDSN), and Lincoln Electric (LECO). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.

Flowserve vs.

Dover (NYSE:DOV) and Flowserve (NYSE:FLS) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, profitability and risk.

84.5% of Dover shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.9% of Flowserve shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Dover shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Flowserve shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Dover has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Flowserve has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Dover presently has a consensus price target of $207.75, suggesting a potential upside of 16.31%. Flowserve has a consensus price target of $63.00, suggesting a potential upside of 27.32%. Given Flowserve's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Flowserve is more favorable than Dover.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Dover
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.58
Flowserve
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Dover has a net margin of 32.95% compared to Flowserve's net margin of 6.20%. Dover's return on equity of 21.03% beat Flowserve's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Dover32.95% 21.03% 10.22%
Flowserve 6.20%17.08%6.62%

In the previous week, Dover had 10 more articles in the media than Flowserve. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for Dover and 25 mentions for Flowserve. Flowserve's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Dover's score of 0.41 indicating that Flowserve is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Dover
14 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
10 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
7 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Flowserve
19 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Dover pays an annual dividend of $2.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Flowserve pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Dover pays out 12.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Flowserve pays out 39.3% 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. Dover has increased its dividend for 70 consecutive years and Flowserve has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.

Dover received 145 more outperform votes than Flowserve when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.41% of users gave Flowserve an outperform vote while only 61.07% of users gave Dover an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
DoverOutperform Votes
753
61.07%
Underperform Votes
480
38.93%
FlowserveOutperform Votes
608
64.41%
Underperform Votes
336
35.59%

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Dover$7.73B3.17$2.70B$16.6010.76
Flowserve$4.61B1.40$186.74M$2.1423.12

Summary

Dover beats Flowserve on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.

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FLS vs. The Competition

MetricFlowservePumps & pumping equipment IndustryIndustrials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$6.47B$11.14B$7.64B$19.41B
Dividend Yield1.64%1.41%4.58%3.83%
P/E Ratio23.1227.1323.1534.23
Price / Sales1.402.9490.0734.85
Price / Cash17.3819.5626.9417.51
Price / Book3.173.313.984.69
Net Income$186.74M$369.47M$807.24M$1.02B
7 Day Performance-3.30%0.51%0.73%-1.74%
1 Month Performance19.08%17.29%11.07%7.46%
1 Year Performance-0.99%8.97%19.35%3.96%

Flowserve Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
FLS
Flowserve
4.7248 of 5 stars
$49.55
+0.2%
$63.00
+27.1%
-1.9%$6.48B$4.61B23.1516,000Positive News
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Revision
DOV
Dover
4.66 of 5 stars
$186.33
-0.2%
$207.75
+11.5%
-4.0%$25.55B$7.73B9.5825,000
SNA
Snap-on
3.5702 of 5 stars
$331.84
+0.0%
$350.83
+5.7%
+16.7%$17.35B$4.67B17.0212,900Trending News
Analyst Forecast
PNR
Pentair
4.6053 of 5 stars
$100.73
-0.3%
$107.14
+6.4%
+15.7%$16.57B$4.08B26.9311,200Positive News
GGG
Graco
3.262 of 5 stars
$87.02
-0.3%
$93.00
+6.9%
+1.8%$14.54B$2.15B30.864,000
IEX
IDEX
4.4028 of 5 stars
$189.80
-0.2%
$212.50
+12.0%
-16.6%$14.34B$3.28B28.548,870News Coverage
Positive News
Ex-Dividend
WWD
Woodward
3.6412 of 5 stars
$213.53
+1.8%
$195.00
-8.7%
+13.9%$12.68B$3.36B35.778,300Trending News
Insider Trade
Analyst Revision
ITT
ITT
4.5569 of 5 stars
$153.58
+0.4%
$164.86
+7.3%
+7.2%$12.09B$3.63B24.3810,300Positive News
Analyst Forecast
RBC
RBC Bearings
2.1259 of 5 stars
$377.69
+2.6%
$360.20
-4.6%
+24.3%$11.86B$1.61B51.883,550Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
NDSN
Nordson
4.4193 of 5 stars
$204.45
-0.4%
$250.20
+22.4%
-19.2%$11.64B$2.67B26.017,330News Coverage
Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
LECO
Lincoln Electric
4.0752 of 5 stars
$201.45
-0.8%
$216.17
+7.3%
-13.6%$11.25B$4.03B24.7212,000Analyst Revision

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