SWK vs. GGG, CNHI, PNR, AMCR, LECO, NDSN, AOS, PKG, ZBRA, and TTEK
Should you be buying Stanley Black & Decker stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Stanley Black & Decker include Graco (GGG), CNH Industrial (CNHI), Pentair (PNR), Amcor (AMCR), Lincoln Electric (LECO), Nordson (NDSN), A. O. Smith (AOS), Packaging Co. of America (PKG), Zebra Technologies (ZBRA), and Tetra Tech (TTEK). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE:SWK) and Graco (NYSE:GGG) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, earnings, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Stanley Black & Decker currently has a consensus target price of $97.00, indicating a potential upside of 7.63%. Graco has a consensus target price of $88.25, indicating a potential upside of 6.30%. Given Stanley Black & Decker's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Stanley Black & Decker is more favorable than Graco.
Graco has a net margin of 23.15% compared to Stanley Black & Decker's net margin of -0.66%. Graco's return on equity of 23.01% beat Stanley Black & Decker's return on equity.
Stanley Black & Decker received 168 more outperform votes than Graco when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.86% of users gave Graco an outperform vote while only 59.74% of users gave Stanley Black & Decker an outperform vote.
Stanley Black & Decker pays an annual dividend of $3.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Graco pays an annual dividend of $1.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Stanley Black & Decker pays out -469.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Graco pays out 35.2% 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. Stanley Black & Decker is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Stanley Black & Decker has a beta of 1.33, indicating that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Graco has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
87.8% of Stanley Black & Decker shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.9% of Graco shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Stanley Black & Decker shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Graco shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Graco has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Stanley Black & Decker. Stanley Black & Decker is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Graco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Graco had 9 more articles in the media than Stanley Black & Decker. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Graco and 9 mentions for Stanley Black & Decker. Stanley Black & Decker's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Graco's score of 0.59 indicating that Stanley Black & Decker is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Graco beats Stanley Black & Decker on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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