VLTO vs. TT, KEYS, FTV, TER, AVTR, RVTY, BIO.B, NVMI, ST, and VNT
Should you be buying Veralto stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Veralto include Trane Technologies (TT), Keysight Technologies (KEYS), Fortive (FTV), Teradyne (TER), Avantor (AVTR), Revvity (RVTY), Bio-Rad Laboratories (BIO.B), Nova (NVMI), Sensata Technologies (ST), and Vontier (VNT). These companies are all part of the "measuring and control equipment" industry.
Trane Technologies (NYSE:TT) and Veralto (NYSE:VLTO) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.
Trane Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Veralto.
Trane Technologies received 76 more outperform votes than Veralto when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 50.00% of users gave Veralto an outperform vote while only 42.65% of users gave Trane Technologies an outperform vote.
Trane Technologies currently has a consensus target price of $337.29, indicating a potential downside of 5.48%. Veralto has a consensus target price of $104.46, indicating a potential downside of 3.89%. Given Veralto's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Veralto is more favorable than Trane Technologies.
In the previous week, Trane Technologies had 10 more articles in the media than Veralto. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Trane Technologies and 7 mentions for Veralto. Veralto's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Trane Technologies' score of 1.01 indicating that Veralto is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Veralto has a net margin of 15.60% compared to Trane Technologies' net margin of 12.33%. Veralto's return on equity of 58.82% beat Trane Technologies' return on equity.
Trane Technologies pays an annual dividend of $3.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Veralto pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Trane Technologies pays out 35.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
83.0% of Trane Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.3% of Veralto shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Trane Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Veralto shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Veralto beats Trane Technologies on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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