NDSN vs. AIMC, TAYD, EKSO, IR, XYL, DOV, IEX, SNA, GGG, and PNR
Should you be buying Nordson stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nordson include Altra Industrial Motion (AIMC), Taylor Devices (TAYD), Ekso Bionics (EKSO), Ingersoll Rand (IR), Xylem (XYL), Dover (DOV), IDEX (IEX), Snap-on (SNA), Graco (GGG), and Pentair (PNR).
Altra Industrial Motion (NASDAQ:AIMC) and Nordson (NASDAQ:NDSN) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, risk and dividends.
In the previous week, Nordson had 14 more articles in the media than Altra Industrial Motion. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Nordson and 0 mentions for Altra Industrial Motion. Nordson's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Altra Industrial Motion's score of 0.40 indicating that Altra Industrial Motion is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Altra Industrial Motion pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Nordson pays an annual dividend of $2.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Altra Industrial Motion pays out 18.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Nordson pays out 32.4% 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. Altra Industrial Motion has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Nordson has increased its dividend for 61 consecutive years. Nordson is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Altra Industrial Motion has a beta of 2.14, indicating that its share price is 114% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nordson has a beta of 1, indicating that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Nordson has a consensus price target of $277.83, suggesting a potential upside of 18.37%. Given Altra Industrial Motion's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Nordson is more favorable than Altra Industrial Motion.
Nordson has higher revenue and earnings than Altra Industrial Motion. Nordson is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Altra Industrial Motion, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Altra Industrial Motion received 7 more outperform votes than Nordson when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.51% of users gave Nordson an outperform vote while only 57.72% of users gave Altra Industrial Motion an outperform vote.
Nordson has a net margin of 18.23% compared to Nordson's net margin of 6.53%. Altra Industrial Motion's return on equity of 20.20% beat Nordson's return on equity.
85.5% of Altra Industrial Motion shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.1% of Nordson shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Altra Industrial Motion shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Nordson shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Nordson beats Altra Industrial Motion on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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