SWK vs. IR, XYL, DOV, IEX, SNA, GGG, PNR, NDSN, WWD, and LECO
Should you be buying Stanley Black & Decker stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Stanley Black & Decker include Ingersoll Rand (IR), Xylem (XYL), Dover (DOV), IDEX (IEX), Snap-on (SNA), Graco (GGG), Pentair (PNR), Nordson (NDSN), Woodward (WWD), and Lincoln Electric (LECO). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.
Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE:SWK) and Ingersoll Rand (NYSE:IR) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment and earnings.
87.8% of Stanley Black & Decker shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.3% of Ingersoll Rand shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Stanley Black & Decker shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Ingersoll Rand shares are owned 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.
Ingersoll Rand has a net margin of 11.85% compared to Stanley Black & Decker's net margin of -0.66%. Ingersoll Rand's return on equity of 12.57% beat Stanley Black & Decker's return on equity.
Ingersoll Rand has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Stanley Black & Decker. Stanley Black & Decker is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ingersoll Rand, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Stanley Black & Decker has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ingersoll Rand has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Stanley Black & Decker and Stanley Black & Decker both had 16 articles in the media. Ingersoll Rand's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Stanley Black & Decker's score of 0.88 indicating that Ingersoll Rand is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Stanley Black & Decker pays an annual dividend of $3.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Ingersoll Rand pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Stanley Black & Decker pays out -469.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ingersoll Rand pays out 4.0% 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. Stanley Black & Decker is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Stanley Black & Decker presently has a consensus price target of $95.44, suggesting a potential upside of 16.48%. Ingersoll Rand has a consensus price target of $95.82, suggesting a potential upside of 6.52%. Given Stanley Black & Decker's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Stanley Black & Decker is more favorable than Ingersoll Rand.
Ingersoll Rand received 161 more outperform votes than Stanley Black & Decker when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.41% of users gave Ingersoll Rand an outperform vote while only 59.68% of users gave Stanley Black & Decker an outperform vote.
Summary
Ingersoll Rand beats Stanley Black & Decker on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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