FTV vs. ROP, AME, KEYS, MKSI, CGNX, ST, MLAB, SENS, HURC, and CLIR
Should you be buying Fortive stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fortive include Roper Technologies (ROP), AMETEK (AME), Keysight Technologies (KEYS), MKS Instruments (MKSI), Cognex (CGNX), Sensata Technologies (ST), Mesa Laboratories (MLAB), Senseonics (SENS), Hurco Companies (HURC), and ClearSign Technologies (CLIR). These companies are all part of the "process control instruments" industry.
Roper Technologies (NYSE:ROP) and Fortive (NYSE:FTV) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.
Roper Technologies received 162 more outperform votes than Fortive when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.24% of users gave Roper Technologies an outperform vote while only 59.75% of users gave Fortive an outperform vote.
Roper Technologies has a beta of 1, indicating that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Fortive has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Roper Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Fortive. Fortive is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Roper Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Roper Technologies pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Fortive pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Roper Technologies pays out 21.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fortive pays out 12.6% 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. Roper Technologies has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Fortive has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Roper Technologies is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
93.3% of Roper Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.9% of Fortive shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Roper Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Fortive shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Roper Technologies had 3 more articles in the media than Fortive. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Roper Technologies and 7 mentions for Fortive. Roper Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.48 beat Fortive's score of 1.05 indicating that Fortive is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Roper Technologies presently has a consensus price target of $584.82, indicating a potential upside of 9.77%. Fortive has a consensus price target of $86.46, indicating a potential upside of 16.15%. Given Roper Technologies' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Fortive is more favorable than Roper Technologies.
Roper Technologies has a net margin of 23.21% compared to Roper Technologies' net margin of 14.68%. Roper Technologies' return on equity of 12.22% beat Fortive's return on equity.
Summary
Roper Technologies beats Fortive on 14 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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