FLS vs. XYL, DOV, SNA, PNR, IEX, GGG, SWK, NDSN, ITT, and WWD
Should you be buying Flowserve stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Flowserve include Xylem (XYL), Dover (DOV), Snap-on (SNA), Pentair (PNR), IDEX (IEX), Graco (GGG), Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), Nordson (NDSN), ITT (ITT), and Woodward (WWD). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.
Flowserve vs.
Flowserve (NYSE:FLS) and Xylem (NYSE:XYL) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk and community ranking.
Xylem has higher revenue and earnings than Flowserve. Flowserve is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Xylem, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Flowserve presently has a consensus target price of $66.10, suggesting a potential upside of 3.92%. Xylem has a consensus target price of $152.10, suggesting a potential upside of 26.92%. Given Xylem's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Xylem is more favorable than Flowserve.
Flowserve pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Xylem pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Flowserve pays out 41.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Xylem pays out 42.1% 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. Flowserve is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Flowserve has a beta of 1.42, indicating that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Xylem has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Flowserve received 68 more outperform votes than Xylem when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.16% of users gave Flowserve an outperform vote while only 63.23% of users gave Xylem an outperform vote.
93.9% of Flowserve shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.0% of Xylem shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Flowserve shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Xylem shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Xylem had 1 more articles in the media than Flowserve. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Xylem and 16 mentions for Flowserve. Xylem's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Flowserve's score of 0.46 indicating that Xylem is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Xylem has a net margin of 9.85% compared to Flowserve's net margin of 5.90%. Flowserve's return on equity of 17.10% beat Xylem's return on equity.
Summary
Flowserve beats Xylem on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:FLS) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
