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Illinois Tool Works (ITW) Competitors

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ITW vs. AIT, AOS, DCI, DE, DOV, GGG, IR, ITT, OI, and XYL

Should you be buying Illinois Tool Works stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Illinois Tool Works include Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT), A. O. Smith (AOS), Donaldson (DCI), Deere & Company (DE), Dover (DOV), Graco (GGG), Ingersoll Rand (IR), ITT (ITT), O-I Glass (OI), and Xylem (XYL).

Illinois Tool Works vs. Its Competitors

Illinois Tool Works (NYSE:ITW) and Applied Industrial Technologies (NYSE:AIT) are both industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and risk.

Illinois Tool Works has a net margin of 21.37% compared to Applied Industrial Technologies' net margin of 8.64%. Illinois Tool Works' return on equity of 92.77% beat Applied Industrial Technologies' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Illinois Tool Works21.37% 92.77% 19.34%
Applied Industrial Technologies 8.64%22.01%12.83%

Illinois Tool Works has higher revenue and earnings than Applied Industrial Technologies. Illinois Tool Works 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Illinois Tool Works$15.90B4.78$3.49B$11.3722.80
Applied Industrial Technologies$4.48B2.13$385.76M$9.9625.12

Illinois Tool Works has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Applied Industrial Technologies has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Illinois Tool Works currently has a consensus target price of $252.83, indicating a potential downside of 2.45%. Applied Industrial Technologies has a consensus target price of $285.00, indicating a potential upside of 13.90%. Given Applied Industrial Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Applied Industrial Technologies is more favorable than Illinois Tool Works.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Illinois Tool Works
3 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.08
Applied Industrial Technologies
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

In the previous week, Illinois Tool Works had 19 more articles in the media than Applied Industrial Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Illinois Tool Works and 8 mentions for Applied Industrial Technologies. Illinois Tool Works' average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat Applied Industrial Technologies' score of 1.29 indicating that Illinois Tool Works is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Illinois Tool Works
24 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Applied Industrial Technologies
7 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Illinois Tool Works pays an annual dividend of $6.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Applied Industrial Technologies pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Illinois Tool Works pays out 52.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Applied Industrial Technologies pays out 18.5% 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. Illinois Tool Works has increased its dividend for 55 consecutive years and Applied Industrial Technologies has increased its dividend for 16 consecutive years. Illinois Tool Works is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

79.8% of Illinois Tool Works shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.5% of Applied Industrial Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Illinois Tool Works shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Applied Industrial Technologies 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.

Summary

Illinois Tool Works beats Applied Industrial Technologies on 13 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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ITW vs. The Competition

MetricIllinois Tool WorksMACH IndustryIndustrials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$75.88B$12.86B$7.54B$20.48B
Dividend Yield2.36%23.76%4.54%3.78%
P/E Ratio22.7829.1324.8927.86
Price / Sales4.785.06111.7240.82
Price / Cash21.9416.2427.3122.26
Price / Book23.083.874.364.59
Net Income$3.49B$521.16M$791.63M$982.91M
7 Day Performance1.10%0.34%1.73%0.57%
1 Month Performance4.82%7.00%4.80%3.75%
1 Year Performance10.74%37.39%32.54%14.57%

Illinois Tool Works Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ITW
Illinois Tool Works
4.6855 of 5 stars
$259.19
+0.5%
$252.83
-2.5%
+10.1%$75.88B$15.90B22.7844,000Positive News
Analyst Forecast
AIT
Applied Industrial Technologies
4.6819 of 5 stars
$232.13
+0.2%
$285.00
+22.8%
+31.3%$8.84B$4.48B23.316,500Positive News
AOS
A. O. Smith
4.7461 of 5 stars
$65.61
-0.1%
$75.29
+14.7%
-15.6%$9.32B$3.82B18.3312,700Dividend Announcement
DCI
Donaldson
3.8911 of 5 stars
$69.47
-0.1%
$70.00
+0.8%
+0.4%$8.09B$3.59B23.3114,000
DE
Deere & Company
4.6161 of 5 stars
$507.23
-0.9%
$515.19
+1.6%
+43.3%$137.37B$51.72B24.5475,800Positive News
DOV
Dover
4.7048 of 5 stars
$183.00
-0.2%
$208.58
+14.0%
+6.8%$25.09B$7.75B11.0225,000Trending News
GGG
Graco
3.7336 of 5 stars
$85.94
-0.2%
$93.00
+8.2%
+12.5%$14.36B$2.11B30.374,300
IR
Ingersoll Rand
3.9868 of 5 stars
$83.19
-1.3%
$97.80
+17.6%
-5.4%$33.56B$7.24B41.1817,000News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
ITT
ITT
4.298 of 5 stars
$157.01
-0.6%
$165.50
+5.4%
+24.4%$12.36B$3.63B24.9611,700
OI
O-I Glass
3.9712 of 5 stars
$14.92
-0.9%
$16.30
+9.2%
+51.2%$2.31B$6.53B-11.8421,000Analyst Forecast
XYL
Xylem
4.548 of 5 stars
$128.91
+0.5%
$143.71
+11.5%
-1.8%$31.37B$8.56B34.6517,800Positive News

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