SHW vs. ECL, IFF, CE, ALB, RPM, NEU, ASH, BCPC, FUL, and SXT
Should you be buying Sherwin-Williams stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sherwin-Williams include Ecolab (ECL), International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF), Celanese (CE), Albemarle (ALB), RPM International (RPM), NewMarket (NEU), Ashland (ASH), Balchem (BCPC), H.B. Fuller (FUL), and Sensient Technologies (SXT). These companies are all part of the "specialty chemicals" industry.
Sherwin-Williams (NYSE:SHW) and Ecolab (NYSE:ECL) are both large-cap construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, dividends, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Sherwin-Williams currently has a consensus target price of $344.41, suggesting a potential upside of 13.37%. Ecolab has a consensus target price of $239.56, suggesting a potential upside of 3.17%. Given Sherwin-Williams' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Sherwin-Williams is more favorable than Ecolab.
Sherwin-Williams pays an annual dividend of $2.86 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Ecolab pays an annual dividend of $2.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Sherwin-Williams pays out 30.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ecolab pays out 42.2% 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.
Sherwin-Williams has a net margin of 10.52% compared to Ecolab's net margin of 10.01%. Sherwin-Williams' return on equity of 73.74% beat Ecolab's return on equity.
Sherwin-Williams received 139 more outperform votes than Ecolab when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.75% of users gave Ecolab an outperform vote while only 64.30% of users gave Sherwin-Williams an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Sherwin-Williams had 2 more articles in the media than Ecolab. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Sherwin-Williams and 9 mentions for Ecolab. Sherwin-Williams' average media sentiment score of 1.60 beat Ecolab's score of 0.94 indicating that Sherwin-Williams is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sherwin-Williams has higher revenue and earnings than Ecolab. Sherwin-Williams is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ecolab, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
77.7% of Sherwin-Williams shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.9% of Ecolab shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Sherwin-Williams shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Ecolab shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Sherwin-Williams has a beta of 1.18, indicating that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ecolab has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Sherwin-Williams beats Ecolab on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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