ALLE vs. ADT, SUGP, GFAI, FERG, IR, XYL, ROK, DOV, BALL, and AXON
Should you be buying Allegion stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Allegion include ADT (ADT), SU Group (SUGP), Guardforce AI (GFAI), Ferguson (FERG), Ingersoll Rand (IR), Xylem (XYL), Rockwell Automation (ROK), Dover (DOV), Ball (BALL), and Axon Enterprise (AXON).
Allegion (NYSE:ALLE) and ADT (NYSE:ADT) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment and valuation.
Allegion has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ADT has a beta of 1.56, indicating that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Allegion received 17 more outperform votes than ADT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.19% of users gave ADT an outperform vote while only 59.28% of users gave Allegion an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Allegion had 14 more articles in the media than ADT. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Allegion and 3 mentions for ADT. Allegion's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat ADT's score of 0.46 indicating that Allegion is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Allegion has a net margin of 14.93% compared to ADT's net margin of 12.81%. Allegion's return on equity of 48.58% beat ADT's return on equity.
92.2% of Allegion shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.2% of ADT shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Allegion shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of ADT shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Allegion currently has a consensus target price of $127.83, indicating a potential upside of 4.94%. ADT has a consensus target price of $8.43, indicating a potential upside of 18.61%. Given ADT's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe ADT is more favorable than Allegion.
Allegion has higher earnings, but lower revenue than ADT. ADT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Allegion, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Allegion pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. ADT pays an annual dividend of $0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Allegion pays out 31.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ADT pays out 31.4% 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.
Summary
Allegion beats ADT on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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