SWK vs. IR, XYL, DOV, IEX, PNR, SNA, GGG, NDSN, LECO, and ITT
Should you be buying Stanley Black & Decker stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Stanley Black & Decker include Ingersoll Rand (IR), Xylem (XYL), Dover (DOV), IDEX (IEX), Pentair (PNR), Snap-on (SNA), Graco (GGG), Nordson (NDSN), Lincoln Electric (LECO), and ITT (ITT). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.
Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE:SWK) and Ingersoll Rand (NYSE:IR) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk and earnings.
Stanley Black & Decker presently has a consensus target price of $94.67, indicating a potential downside of 0.82%. Ingersoll Rand has a consensus target price of $98.17, indicating a potential downside of 0.54%. Given Ingersoll Rand's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ingersoll Rand is more favorable than Stanley Black & Decker.
Ingersoll Rand received 165 more outperform votes than Stanley Black & Decker when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.55% of users gave Ingersoll Rand an outperform vote while only 59.61% of users gave Stanley Black & Decker an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Ingersoll Rand had 1 more articles in the media than Stanley Black & Decker. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Ingersoll Rand and 22 mentions for Stanley Black & Decker. Stanley Black & Decker's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Ingersoll Rand's score of 0.47 indicating that Stanley Black & Decker is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Stanley Black & Decker has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ingersoll Rand has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ingersoll Rand has a net margin of 11.85% compared to Stanley Black & Decker's net margin of -0.66%. Ingersoll Rand's return on equity of 12.57% beat Stanley Black & Decker's return on equity.
Stanley Black & Decker pays an annual dividend of $3.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Ingersoll Rand pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Stanley Black & Decker pays out -469.6% 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. Stanley Black & Decker is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Ingersoll Rand has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Stanley Black & Decker. Stanley Black & Decker is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ingersoll Rand, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
87.8% of Stanley Black & Decker shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.3% of Ingersoll Rand shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Stanley Black & Decker shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Ingersoll Rand shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Ingersoll Rand beats Stanley Black & Decker on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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