GTLS vs. ADT, FLS, MLI, ESAB, TKR, SITE, BERY, MIDD, SON, and AA
Should you be buying Chart Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chart Industries include ADT (ADT), Flowserve (FLS), Mueller Industries (MLI), ESAB (ESAB), Timken (TKR), SiteOne Landscape Supply (SITE), Berry Global Group (BERY), Middleby (MIDD), Sonoco Products (SON), and Alcoa (AA). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Chart Industries (NYSE:GTLS) and ADT (NYSE:ADT) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, dividends and institutional ownership.
87.2% of ADT shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Chart Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of ADT shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
ADT has a net margin of 12.81% compared to Chart Industries' net margin of 1.59%. ADT's return on equity of 15.98% beat Chart Industries' return on equity.
Chart Industries received 68 more outperform votes than ADT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.19% of users gave ADT an outperform vote while only 62.60% of users gave Chart Industries an outperform vote.
Chart Industries has a beta of 1.73, indicating that its share price is 73% 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.
Chart Industries presently has a consensus price target of $197.57, indicating a potential upside of 29.25%. ADT has a consensus price target of $8.43, indicating a potential upside of 20.05%. Given Chart Industries' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Chart Industries is more favorable than ADT.
ADT has higher revenue and earnings than Chart Industries. ADT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chart Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Chart Industries had 3 more articles in the media than ADT. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Chart Industries and 6 mentions for ADT. Chart Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat ADT's score of 0.84 indicating that Chart Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Chart Industries beats ADT on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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