FLS vs. DOV, SNA, PNR, GGG, IEX, WWD, NDSN, ITT, RBC, 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), Nordson (NDSN), ITT (ITT), RBC Bearings (RBC), and Lincoln Electric (LECO). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.
Flowserve vs. Its Competitors
Flowserve (NYSE:FLS) and Dover (NYSE:DOV) are both industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings and dividends.
Flowserve pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Dover pays an annual dividend of $2.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Flowserve pays out 39.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Dover pays out 12.4% 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. Flowserve has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Dover has increased its dividend for 70 consecutive years.
93.9% of Flowserve shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.5% of Dover shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Flowserve shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Dover shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Dover had 26 more articles in the media than Flowserve. MarketBeat recorded 36 mentions for Dover and 10 mentions for Flowserve. Flowserve's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Dover's score of 0.25 indicating that Flowserve is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Flowserve currently has a consensus target price of $63.00, indicating a potential upside of 33.21%. Dover has a consensus target price of $207.75, indicating a potential upside of 16.09%. Given Flowserve's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Flowserve is more favorable than Dover.
Flowserve has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dover has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
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.
Dover received 144 more outperform votes than Flowserve when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.44% of users gave Flowserve an outperform vote while only 61.07% of users gave Dover an outperform vote.
Summary
Dover beats Flowserve on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NYSE:FLS) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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