FERG vs. JCI, GWW, IR, XYL, ROK, DOV, EMR, AXON, BALL, and HUBB Should you be buying Ferguson stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ferguson include Johnson Controls International (JCI), W.W. Grainger (GWW), Ingersoll Rand (IR), Xylem (XYL), Rockwell Automation (ROK), Dover (DOV), Emerson Electric (EMR), Axon Enterprise (AXON), Ball (BALL), and Hubbell (HUBB). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Johnson Controls International (NYSE:JCI ) and Ferguson (NASDAQ:FERG ) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Johnson Controls International has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ferguson has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Johnson Controls International received 1115 more outperform votes than Ferguson when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.23% of users gave Johnson Controls International an outperform vote while only 37.84% of users gave Ferguson an outperform vote.
Johnson Controls International presently has a consensus target price of $63.00, indicating a potential downside of 8.72%. Ferguson has a consensus target price of $166.50, indicating a potential downside of 20.98%. Given Ferguson's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Johnson Controls International is more favorable than Ferguson.
Johnson Controls International has a net margin of 6.32% compared to Johnson Controls International's net margin of 6.00%. Johnson Controls International's return on equity of 37.99% beat Ferguson's return on equity.
Ferguson has higher revenue and earnings than Johnson Controls International. Ferguson is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Johnson Controls International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Johnson Controls International pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Ferguson pays an annual dividend of $3.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Johnson Controls International pays out 59.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ferguson pays out 36.7% 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. Johnson Controls International has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Ferguson has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Johnson Controls International is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Ferguson had 17 more articles in the media than Johnson Controls International. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Ferguson and 11 mentions for Johnson Controls International. Ferguson's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Johnson Controls International's score of 0.24 indicating that Johnson Controls International is being referred to more favorably in the media.
90.1% of Johnson Controls International shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.0% of Ferguson shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Johnson Controls International shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Ferguson shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary Johnson Controls International beats Ferguson on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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