MWA vs. ITT, LECO, WWD, CR, DCI, RBC, MLI, MIDD, WTS, and FLS
Should you be buying Mueller Water Products stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mueller Water Products include ITT (ITT), Lincoln Electric (LECO), Woodward (WWD), Crane (CR), Donaldson (DCI), RBC Bearings (RBC), Mueller Industries (MLI), Middleby (MIDD), Watts Water Technologies (WTS), and Flowserve (FLS). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.
ITT (NYSE:ITT) and Mueller Water Products (NYSE:MWA) are both multi-sector conglomerates companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
ITT has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mueller Water Products has a beta of 1.34, suggesting that its share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ITT received 1 more outperform votes than Mueller Water Products when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.37% of users gave Mueller Water Products an outperform vote while only 57.35% of users gave ITT an outperform vote.
ITT has a net margin of 12.47% compared to Mueller Water Products' net margin of 9.71%. Mueller Water Products' return on equity of 19.46% beat ITT's return on equity.
In the previous week, Mueller Water Products had 2 more articles in the media than ITT. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Mueller Water Products and 7 mentions for ITT. Mueller Water Products' average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat ITT's score of 0.69 indicating that Mueller Water Products is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ITT pays an annual dividend of $1.27 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Mueller Water Products pays an annual dividend of $0.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. ITT pays out 24.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Mueller Water Products pays out 39.1% 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.
ITT presently has a consensus price target of $151.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.56%. Mueller Water Products has a consensus price target of $21.60, suggesting a potential upside of 6.82%. Given ITT's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe ITT is more favorable than Mueller Water Products.
ITT has higher revenue and earnings than Mueller Water Products. ITT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mueller Water Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
91.6% of ITT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.7% of Mueller Water Products shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of ITT shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Mueller Water Products shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
ITT beats Mueller Water Products on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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