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IEX vs. NDSN, ALLE, AME, DOV, ENS, EPAC, ITT, ITW, MRC, and XYL

Should you be buying IDEX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IDEX include Nordson (NDSN), Allegion (ALLE), AMETEK (AME), Dover (DOV), Enersys (ENS), Enerpac Tool Group (EPAC), ITT (ITT), Illinois Tool Works (ITW), MRC Global (MRC), and Xylem (XYL).

IDEX vs. Its Competitors

Nordson (NASDAQ:NDSN) and IDEX (NYSE:IEX) are both large-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, profitability and valuation.

Nordson has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IDEX has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Nordson pays an annual dividend of $3.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. IDEX pays an annual dividend of $2.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Nordson pays out 40.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. IDEX pays out 45.9% 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. Nordson has increased its dividend for 62 consecutive years and IDEX has increased its dividend for 16 consecutive years.

Nordson presently has a consensus price target of $254.86, indicating a potential upside of 20.71%. IDEX has a consensus price target of $205.25, indicating a potential upside of 28.48%. Given IDEX's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe IDEX is more favorable than Nordson.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Nordson
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.60
IDEX
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.75

Nordson has a net margin of 16.51% compared to IDEX's net margin of 14.05%. Nordson's return on equity of 19.10% beat IDEX's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Nordson16.51% 19.10% 9.60%
IDEX 14.05%15.16%8.60%

72.1% of Nordson shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.0% of IDEX shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Nordson shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of IDEX shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, IDEX had 29 more articles in the media than Nordson. MarketBeat recorded 38 mentions for IDEX and 9 mentions for Nordson. Nordson's average media sentiment score of 1.37 beat IDEX's score of 0.54 indicating that Nordson is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Nordson
8 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
IDEX
14 Very Positive mention(s)
5 Positive mention(s)
7 Neutral mention(s)
3 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Nordson$2.69B4.44$467.28M$7.7827.14
IDEX$3.27B3.68$505M$6.1925.81

Summary

Nordson beats IDEX on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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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.
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IEX vs. The Competition

MetricIDEXMACH IndustryIndustrials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$12.18B$12.87B$7.58B$20.65B
Dividend Yield1.75%23.77%4.56%3.66%
P/E Ratio25.8120.1124.8529.39
Price / Sales3.684.3898.4462.52
Price / Cash15.8316.6428.3223.31
Price / Book3.003.924.324.37
Net Income$505M$524.02M$795.91M$996.36M
7 Day Performance-2.82%-0.35%-0.26%-0.17%
1 Month Performance-11.86%2.36%1.67%-0.70%
1 Year Performance-16.85%41.99%33.87%15.60%

IDEX Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
IEX
IDEX
4.9756 of 5 stars
$159.75
-1.3%
$205.25
+28.5%
-15.7%$12.18B$3.27B25.819,000Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
NDSN
Nordson
4.7799 of 5 stars
$212.46
+1.5%
$254.86
+20.0%
-8.9%$12.01B$2.70B27.318,000Positive News
ALLE
Allegion
4.7639 of 5 stars
$166.85
+1.0%
$165.88
-0.6%
+29.4%$14.32B$3.88B23.1714,400
AME
AMETEK
4.7261 of 5 stars
$184.31
+1.1%
$200.91
+9.0%
+19.5%$42.55B$6.98B29.6821,500Positive News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
DOV
Dover
4.7932 of 5 stars
$176.09
+0.6%
$213.92
+21.5%
+2.5%$24.15B$7.75B10.6224,000
ENS
Enersys
4.8351 of 5 stars
$91.09
+2.1%
$117.50
+29.0%
-6.1%$3.57B$3.62B10.1110,858Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
EPAC
Enerpac Tool Group
4.0096 of 5 stars
$38.32
+2.2%
$53.00
+38.3%
+4.7%$2.07B$608.10M23.512,000Positive News
Dividend Announcement
ITT
ITT
4.2462 of 5 stars
$166.88
+1.7%
$179.22
+7.4%
+32.8%$13.13B$3.70B26.2411,700Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
ITW
Illinois Tool Works
4.5557 of 5 stars
$253.56
+0.5%
$259.33
+2.3%
+7.0%$74.29B$15.79B22.2244,000Earnings Report
Dividend Increase
Analyst Forecast
MRC
MRC Global
3.3451 of 5 stars
$13.97
+0.7%
$15.33
+9.8%
+10.5%$1.20B$3.01B-126.952,600News Coverage
Positive News
Earnings Report
XYL
Xylem
4.2063 of 5 stars
$143.89
+1.2%
$151.14
+5.0%
+13.7%$35.02B$8.56B37.3723,000Positive News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision

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