FLS vs. AIT, CR, DOV, EMR, GGG, GHM, IR, ITT, PH, and SNA
Should you be buying Flowserve stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Flowserve include Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT), Crane (CR), Dover (DOV), Emerson Electric (EMR), Graco (GGG), Graham (GHM), Ingersoll Rand (IR), ITT (ITT), Parker-Hannifin (PH), and Snap-On (SNA).
Flowserve vs. Its Competitors
Applied Industrial Technologies (NYSE:AIT) and Flowserve (NYSE:FLS) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, media sentiment, dividends and earnings.
Applied Industrial Technologies has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Flowserve has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Applied Industrial Technologies has a net margin of 8.61% compared to Flowserve's net margin of 6.28%. Applied Industrial Technologies' return on equity of 21.78% beat Flowserve's return on equity.
In the previous week, Flowserve had 3 more articles in the media than Applied Industrial Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Flowserve and 4 mentions for Applied Industrial Technologies. Applied Industrial Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.62 beat Flowserve's score of 0.73 indicating that Applied Industrial Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Applied Industrial Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Flowserve. Flowserve is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Applied Industrial Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Applied Industrial Technologies pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Flowserve pays an annual dividend of $0.84 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. Flowserve pays out 38.0% 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. Applied Industrial Technologies has increased its dividend for 16 consecutive years and Flowserve has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
93.5% of Applied Industrial Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.9% of Flowserve shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Applied Industrial Technologies 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.
Applied Industrial Technologies presently has a consensus target price of $285.00, indicating a potential upside of 10.35%. Flowserve has a consensus target price of $65.78, indicating a potential upside of 24.64%. Given Flowserve's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Flowserve is more favorable than Applied Industrial Technologies.
Summary
Applied Industrial Technologies beats Flowserve on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get Flowserve News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for FLS and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding FLS and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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.
Flowserve Competitors List
Related Companies and Tools
This page (NYSE:FLS) was last updated on 10/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
Free FLS Stock Alerts