PNR vs. IR, XYL, DOV, IEX, SWK, SNA, GGG, NDSN, LECO, and ITT
Should you be buying Pentair stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pentair include Ingersoll Rand (IR), Xylem (XYL), Dover (DOV), IDEX (IEX), Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), Snap-on (SNA), Graco (GGG), Nordson (NDSN), Lincoln Electric (LECO), and ITT (ITT). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.
Pentair (NYSE:PNR) and Ingersoll Rand (NYSE:IR) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and analyst recommendations.
Ingersoll Rand has higher revenue and earnings than Pentair. Pentair is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ingersoll Rand, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pentair has a net margin of 16.05% compared to Ingersoll Rand's net margin of 11.85%. Pentair's return on equity of 20.39% beat Ingersoll Rand's return on equity.
Pentair pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Ingersoll Rand pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Pentair pays out 24.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ingersoll Rand pays out 4.0% 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.
In the previous week, Pentair had 35 more articles in the media than Ingersoll Rand. MarketBeat recorded 58 mentions for Pentair and 23 mentions for Ingersoll Rand. Ingersoll Rand's average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat Pentair's score of 0.42 indicating that Ingersoll Rand is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ingersoll Rand received 81 more outperform votes than Pentair when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.55% of users gave Ingersoll Rand an outperform vote while only 56.79% of users gave Pentair an outperform vote.
92.4% of Pentair shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.3% of Ingersoll Rand shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Pentair shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Ingersoll Rand shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Pentair has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ingersoll Rand has a beta of 1.45, indicating that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Pentair presently has a consensus target price of $92.87, suggesting a potential upside of 4.93%. Ingersoll Rand has a consensus target price of $98.17, suggesting a potential downside of 0.54%. Given Pentair's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Pentair is more favorable than Ingersoll Rand.
Summary
Ingersoll Rand beats Pentair on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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