GWW vs. ROK, JCI, PH, IR, CTAS, DOV, EMR, XYL, TS, and BALL
Should you be buying W.W. Grainger stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of W.W. Grainger include Rockwell Automation (ROK), Johnson Controls International (JCI), Parker-Hannifin (PH), Ingersoll Rand (IR), Cintas (CTAS), Dover (DOV), Emerson Electric (EMR), Xylem (XYL), Tenaris (TS), and Ball (BALL). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
W.W. Grainger vs.
W.W. Grainger (NYSE:GWW) and Rockwell Automation (NYSE:ROK) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability and media sentiment.
W.W. Grainger presently has a consensus price target of $688.88, indicating a potential upside of 3.53%. Rockwell Automation has a consensus price target of $263.24, indicating a potential downside of 5.45%. Given W.W. Grainger's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe W.W. Grainger is more favorable than Rockwell Automation.
W.W. Grainger has higher revenue and earnings than Rockwell Automation. W.W. Grainger is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rockwell Automation, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
W.W. Grainger has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rockwell Automation has a beta of 1.44, meaning that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Rockwell Automation had 5 more articles in the media than W.W. Grainger. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Rockwell Automation and 9 mentions for W.W. Grainger. Rockwell Automation's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat W.W. Grainger's score of 0.48 indicating that Rockwell Automation is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
71.8% of W.W. Grainger shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.7% of Rockwell Automation shares are held by institutional investors. 10.0% of W.W. Grainger shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Rockwell Automation shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Rockwell Automation received 67 more outperform votes than W.W. Grainger when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.39% of users gave Rockwell Automation an outperform vote while only 54.88% of users gave W.W. Grainger an outperform vote.
Rockwell Automation has a net margin of 13.63% compared to W.W. Grainger's net margin of 10.14%. W.W. Grainger's return on equity of 60.13% beat Rockwell Automation's return on equity.
W.W. Grainger pays an annual dividend of $6.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Rockwell Automation pays an annual dividend of $4.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. W.W. Grainger pays out 22.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Rockwell Automation pays out 51.1% 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.
Summary
Rockwell Automation beats W.W. Grainger on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding GWW 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.
W.W. Grainger Competitors List
