PNR vs. KAI, AMCR, SWK, LECO, AOS, ZBRA, NDSN, RRX, ALLE, and GGG
Should you be buying Pentair stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pentair include Kadant (KAI), Amcor (AMCR), Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), Lincoln Electric (LECO), A. O. Smith (AOS), Zebra Technologies (ZBRA), Nordson (NDSN), Regal Rexnord (RRX), Allegion (ALLE), and Graco (GGG). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Kadant (NYSE:KAI) and Pentair (NYSE:PNR) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, profitability, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
96.1% of Kadant shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of Pentair shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Kadant shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Pentair shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Kadant currently has a consensus price target of $300.00, suggesting a potential downside of 9.99%. Pentair has a consensus price target of $84.36, suggesting a potential downside of 0.77%. Given Kadant's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Pentair is more favorable than Kadant.
Pentair has a net margin of 15.17% compared to Pentair's net margin of 12.12%. Kadant's return on equity of 20.80% beat Pentair's return on equity.
In the previous week, Pentair had 8 more articles in the media than Kadant. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Pentair and 5 mentions for Kadant. Pentair's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Kadant's score of 0.51 indicating that Kadant is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Pentair has higher revenue and earnings than Kadant. Pentair is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kadant, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Kadant pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Pentair pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Kadant pays out 12.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pentair pays out 24.5% 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. Kadant has raised its dividend for 10 consecutive years and Pentair has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years.
Pentair received 310 more outperform votes than Kadant when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.68% of users gave Kadant an outperform vote while only 56.18% of users gave Pentair an outperform vote.
Kadant has a beta of 1.28, indicating that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pentair has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Kadant beats Pentair on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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