GTLS vs. DOV, IEX, SNA, GGG, NDSN, PNR, SWK, LECO, WWD, and ITT
Should you be buying Chart Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chart Industries 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.
Dover (NYSE:DOV) and Chart Industries (NYSE:GTLS) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, earnings, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends and institutional ownership.
Dover received 251 more outperform votes than Chart Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.60% of users gave Chart Industries an outperform vote while only 61.60% of users gave Dover an outperform vote.
Dover presently has a consensus price target of $185.75, suggesting a potential upside of 1.05%. Chart Industries has a consensus price target of $197.57, suggesting a potential upside of 25.92%. Given Dover's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Chart Industries is more favorable than Dover.
Dover has a net margin of 17.28% compared to Dover's net margin of 1.59%. Chart Industries' return on equity of 25.04% beat Dover's return on equity.
84.5% of Dover shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Dover shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Chart Industries shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Dover has higher revenue and earnings than Chart Industries. Dover is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chart Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Dover has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chart Industries has a beta of 1.73, meaning that its stock price is 73% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Dover had 14 more articles in the media than Chart Industries. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Dover and 11 mentions for Chart Industries. Dover's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Chart Industries' score of -0.04 indicating that Chart Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Dover beats Chart Industries on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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