XYL vs. IEX, GGG, IR, ROK, DOV, FERG, JCI, AXON, GWW, and BALL
Should you be buying Xylem stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Xylem include IDEX (IEX), Graco (GGG), Ingersoll Rand (IR), Rockwell Automation (ROK), Dover (DOV), Ferguson (FERG), Johnson Controls International (JCI), Axon Enterprise (AXON), W.W. Grainger (GWW), and Ball (BALL). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Xylem (NYSE:XYL) and IDEX (NYSE:IEX) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, profitability and risk.
Xylem received 56 more outperform votes than IDEX when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.88% of users gave Xylem an outperform vote while only 58.40% of users gave IDEX an outperform vote.
Xylem has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IDEX has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
88.0% of Xylem shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.0% of IDEX shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Xylem shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of IDEX shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Xylem pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. IDEX pays an annual dividend of $2.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Xylem pays out 51.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. IDEX pays out 36.3% 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. IDEX is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
IDEX has a net margin of 17.89% compared to Xylem's net margin of 8.34%. IDEX's return on equity of 17.60% beat Xylem's return on equity.
Xylem has higher revenue and earnings than IDEX. IDEX is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Xylem, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Xylem currently has a consensus price target of $140.70, suggesting a potential downside of 1.83%. IDEX has a consensus price target of $250.71, suggesting a potential upside of 12.77%. Given IDEX's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe IDEX is more favorable than Xylem.
In the previous week, IDEX had 6 more articles in the media than Xylem. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for IDEX and 10 mentions for Xylem. Xylem's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat IDEX's score of 0.53 indicating that Xylem is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
IDEX beats Xylem on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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