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).
ADT (NYSE:ADT) and Allegion (NYSE:ALLE) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
87.2% of ADT shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.2% of Allegion shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of ADT shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Allegion shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
ADT has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Allegion has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ADT pays an annual dividend of $0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Allegion pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. ADT pays out 31.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Allegion pays out 31.3% 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. ADT has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Allegion has increased its dividend for 10 consecutive years.
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. ADT's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Allegion's score of 0.61 indicating that Allegion is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
ADT presently has a consensus target price of $8.43, indicating a potential upside of 18.61%. Allegion has a consensus target price of $127.83, indicating a potential upside of 4.94%. Given Allegion's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe ADT is more favorable than Allegion.
Allegion has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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 has a net margin of 14.93% compared to Allegion's net margin of 12.81%. ADT's return on equity of 48.58% beat Allegion's return on equity.
Summary
Allegion beats ADT on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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