RBC vs. DOV, IEX, SNA, GGG, NDSN, PNR, SWK, LECO, WWD, and ITT
Should you be buying RBC Bearings stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RBC Bearings include Dover (DOV), IDEX (IEX), Snap-on (SNA), Graco (GGG), Nordson (NDSN), Pentair (PNR), Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), Lincoln Electric (LECO), Woodward (WWD), and ITT (ITT). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.
RBC Bearings (NYSE:RBC) and Dover (NYSE:DOV) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Dover has a net margin of 17.28% compared to RBC Bearings' net margin of 13.45%. Dover's return on equity of 25.04% beat RBC Bearings' return on equity.
Dover received 494 more outperform votes than RBC Bearings when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.60% of users gave Dover an outperform vote while only 55.32% of users gave RBC Bearings an outperform vote.
RBC Bearings currently has a consensus target price of $286.57, suggesting a potential downside of 2.95%. Dover has a consensus target price of $185.75, suggesting a potential upside of 1.05%. Given Dover's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Dover is more favorable than RBC Bearings.
In the previous week, Dover had 12 more articles in the media than RBC Bearings. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Dover and 9 mentions for RBC Bearings. RBC Bearings' average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Dover's score of -0.08 indicating that RBC Bearings is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Dover has higher revenue and earnings than RBC Bearings. Dover is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RBC Bearings, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
84.5% of Dover shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.9% of RBC Bearings shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Dover shares are owned by company 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.
RBC Bearings has a beta of 1.46, suggesting that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dover has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Dover beats RBC Bearings on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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