GGG vs. IR, XYL, DOV, IEX, SNA, NDSN, SWK, PNR, LECO, and ITT
Should you be buying Graco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Graco include Ingersoll Rand (IR), Xylem (XYL), Dover (DOV), IDEX (IEX), Snap-on (SNA), Nordson (NDSN), Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), Pentair (PNR), Lincoln Electric (LECO), and ITT (ITT). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.
Ingersoll Rand (NYSE:IR) and Graco (NYSE:GGG) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and risk.
Ingersoll Rand pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Graco pays an annual dividend of $1.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Ingersoll Rand pays out 4.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Graco pays out 35.2% 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. Graco has raised its dividend for 28 consecutive years. Graco is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Ingersoll Rand presently has a consensus price target of $98.17, suggesting a potential downside of 0.54%. Graco has a consensus price target of $86.80, suggesting a potential upside of 2.81%. Given Ingersoll Rand's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Graco is more favorable than Ingersoll Rand.
Ingersoll Rand received 330 more outperform votes than Graco when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.55% of users gave Ingersoll Rand an outperform vote while only 60.75% of users gave Graco an outperform vote.
95.3% of Ingersoll Rand shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.9% of Graco shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Ingersoll Rand shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Graco shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Graco has a net margin of 23.16% compared to Graco's net margin of 11.85%. Ingersoll Rand's return on equity of 22.82% beat Graco's return on equity.
Ingersoll Rand has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Graco has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Graco had 1 more articles in the media than Ingersoll Rand. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Graco and 23 mentions for Ingersoll Rand. Ingersoll Rand's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Graco's score of 0.47 indicating that Graco is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ingersoll Rand has higher revenue and earnings than Graco. Graco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ingersoll Rand, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Graco beats Ingersoll Rand on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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