DHR vs. GE, MMM, CSL, ROP, AME, FTV, KEYS, MKSI, CGNX, and ST
Should you be buying Danaher stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Danaher include General Electric (GE), 3M (MMM), Carlisle Companies (CSL), Roper Technologies (ROP), AMETEK (AME), Fortive (FTV), Keysight Technologies (KEYS), MKS Instruments (MKSI), Cognex (CGNX), and Sensata Technologies (ST).
General Electric (NYSE:GE) and Danaher (NYSE:DHR) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, community ranking, profitability, valuation and risk.
General Electric currently has a consensus price target of $176.00, indicating a potential upside of 6.58%. Danaher has a consensus price target of $267.31, indicating a potential upside of 4.09%. Given Danaher's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe General Electric is more favorable than Danaher.
74.8% of General Electric shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.1% of Danaher shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of General Electric shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.1% of Danaher shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
General Electric received 1086 more outperform votes than Danaher when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.29% of users gave General Electric an outperform vote while only 74.73% of users gave Danaher an outperform vote.
General Electric has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Danaher has a beta of 0.83, suggesting that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
General Electric pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Danaher pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. General Electric pays out 36.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Danaher pays out 18.3% 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. General Electric has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Danaher has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
General Electric has higher revenue and earnings than Danaher. Danaher is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than General Electric, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Danaher has a net margin of 16.78% compared to Danaher's net margin of 5.05%. Danaher's return on equity of 12.54% beat General Electric's return on equity.
In the previous week, General Electric had 11 more articles in the media than Danaher. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for General Electric and 9 mentions for Danaher. General Electric's average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat Danaher's score of 0.63 indicating that Danaher is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
General Electric beats Danaher on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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