ABBNY vs. HON, AME, MPWR, LFUS, POWL, CAT, ETN, DE, ITW, and CTAS
Should you be buying ABB stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ABB include Honeywell International (HON), AMETEK (AME), Monolithic Power Systems (MPWR), Littelfuse (LFUS), Powell Industries (POWL), Caterpillar (CAT), Eaton (ETN), Deere & Company (DE), Illinois Tool Works (ITW), and Cintas (CTAS).
ABB (NYSE:ABBNY) and Honeywell International (NASDAQ:HON) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings and community ranking.
1.1% of ABB shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.9% of Honeywell International shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.9% of ABB shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Honeywell International shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Honeywell International has higher revenue and earnings than ABB. Honeywell International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ABB, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Honeywell International has a consensus target price of $215.71, suggesting a potential upside of 9.46%. Given Honeywell International's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Honeywell International is more favorable than ABB.
Honeywell International has a net margin of 15.52% compared to ABB's net margin of 11.21%. Honeywell International's return on equity of 35.88% beat ABB's return on equity.
ABB has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Honeywell International has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ABB pays an annual dividend of $0.58 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Honeywell International pays an annual dividend of $4.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. ABB pays out 29.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Honeywell International pays out 50.1% 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.
Honeywell International received 488 more outperform votes than ABB when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.61% of users gave Honeywell International an outperform vote while only 62.77% of users gave ABB an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Honeywell International had 13 more articles in the media than ABB. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Honeywell International and 1 mentions for ABB. Honeywell International's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat ABB's score of 0.31 indicating that Honeywell International is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Honeywell International beats ABB on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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