GTLS vs. XYL, DOV, SNA, PNR, IEX, GGG, SWK, NDSN, LECO, and ITT
Should you be buying Chart Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chart Industries include Xylem (XYL), Dover (DOV), Snap-on (SNA), Pentair (PNR), IDEX (IEX), Graco (GGG), Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), Nordson (NDSN), Lincoln Electric (LECO), and ITT (ITT). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.
Chart Industries vs.
Chart Industries (NYSE:GTLS) and Xylem (NYSE:XYL) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, valuation, profitability, community ranking, risk and institutional ownership.
Chart Industries has a beta of 1.84, indicating that its share price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Xylem has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Chart Industries currently has a consensus target price of $192.54, indicating a potential upside of 17.42%. Xylem has a consensus target price of $149.90, indicating a potential upside of 15.58%. Given Chart Industries' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Chart Industries is more favorable than Xylem.
Xylem has higher revenue and earnings than Chart Industries. Xylem is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chart Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Chart Industries had 16 more articles in the media than Xylem. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for Chart Industries and 17 mentions for Xylem. Xylem's average media sentiment score of 1.53 beat Chart Industries' score of 0.57 indicating that Xylem is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Xylem received 30 more outperform votes than Chart Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.25% of users gave Xylem an outperform vote while only 63.05% of users gave Chart Industries an outperform vote.
Xylem has a net margin of 10.40% compared to Chart Industries' net margin of 4.30%. Chart Industries' return on equity of 13.25% beat Xylem's return on equity.
88.0% of Xylem shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Chart Industries shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Xylem shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Chart Industries beats Xylem on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:GTLS) was last updated on 3/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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