IR vs. ITW, PH, XYL, DOV, IEX, SNA, PNR, GGG, NDSN, and SWK
Should you be buying Ingersoll Rand stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ingersoll Rand include Illinois Tool Works (ITW), Parker-Hannifin (PH), Xylem (XYL), Dover (DOV), IDEX (IEX), Snap-on (SNA), Pentair (PNR), Graco (GGG), Nordson (NDSN), and Stanley Black & Decker (SWK). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.
Ingersoll Rand (NYSE:IR) and Illinois Tool Works (NYSE:ITW) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership and valuation.
Ingersoll Rand pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Illinois Tool Works pays an annual dividend of $5.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Ingersoll Rand pays out 4.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Illinois Tool Works pays out 55.2% 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.
Illinois Tool Works has a net margin of 19.07% compared to Ingersoll Rand's net margin of 11.85%. Illinois Tool Works' return on equity of 97.82% beat Ingersoll Rand's return on equity.
Ingersoll Rand has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Illinois Tool Works has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ingersoll Rand presently has a consensus price target of $95.82, indicating a potential upside of 7.50%. Illinois Tool Works has a consensus price target of $256.44, indicating a potential upside of 6.67%. Given Ingersoll Rand's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Ingersoll Rand is more favorable than Illinois Tool Works.
Ingersoll Rand received 115 more outperform votes than Illinois Tool Works when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.41% of users gave Ingersoll Rand an outperform vote while only 57.17% of users gave Illinois Tool Works an outperform vote.
95.3% of Ingersoll Rand shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.8% of Illinois Tool Works shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Ingersoll Rand shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Illinois Tool Works shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Illinois Tool Works has higher revenue and earnings than Ingersoll Rand. Illinois Tool Works is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ingersoll Rand, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Illinois Tool Works had 6 more articles in the media than Ingersoll Rand. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Illinois Tool Works and 16 mentions for Ingersoll Rand. Ingersoll Rand's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Illinois Tool Works' score of 0.60 indicating that Ingersoll Rand is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Ingersoll Rand beats Illinois Tool Works on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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