PNR vs. NDSN, GGG, CNHI, SWK, LECO, AOS, PKG, IEX, ZBRA, and ALLE
Should you be buying Pentair stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pentair include Nordson (NDSN), Graco (GGG), CNH Industrial (CNHI), Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), Lincoln Electric (LECO), A. O. Smith (AOS), Packaging Co. of America (PKG), IDEX (IEX), Zebra Technologies (ZBRA), and Allegion (ALLE). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Nordson (NASDAQ:NDSN) and Pentair (NYSE:PNR) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking, dividends and institutional ownership.
Pentair has higher revenue and earnings than Nordson. Pentair is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nordson, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
72.1% of Nordson shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of Pentair shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Nordson shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Pentair shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Nordson pays an annual dividend of $2.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Pentair pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Nordson pays out 32.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pentair pays out 24.5% 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. Nordson has increased its dividend for 61 consecutive years and Pentair has increased its dividend for 6 consecutive years. Nordson is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Pentair received 177 more outperform votes than Nordson when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.51% of users gave Nordson an outperform vote while only 56.50% of users gave Pentair an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Nordson had 12 more articles in the media than Pentair. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Nordson and 10 mentions for Pentair. Nordson's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Pentair's score of 0.36 indicating that Pentair is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nordson presently has a consensus target price of $277.83, indicating a potential upside of 20.71%. Pentair has a consensus target price of $89.93, indicating a potential upside of 13.81%. Given Pentair's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Nordson is more favorable than Pentair.
Nordson has a beta of 1, indicating that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Pentair has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Nordson has a net margin of 18.23% compared to Nordson's net margin of 15.30%. Pentair's return on equity of 20.20% beat Nordson's return on equity.
Summary
Nordson beats Pentair on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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