NVT vs. BKR, SYM, BWXT, ESAB, SPXC, MOG.B, ZWS, CHX, WFRD, and WHD
Should you be buying nVent Electric stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of nVent Electric include Baker Hughes (BKR), Symbotic (SYM), BWX Technologies (BWXT), ESAB (ESAB), SPX Technologies (SPXC), Moog (MOG.B), Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (ZWS), ChampionX (CHX), Weatherford International (WFRD), and Cactus (WHD). These companies are all part of the "machinery" industry.
nVent Electric vs.
Baker Hughes (NASDAQ:BKR) and nVent Electric (NYSE:NVT) are both large-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Baker Hughes presently has a consensus price target of $47.18, indicating a potential upside of 4.67%. nVent Electric has a consensus price target of $86.17, indicating a potential upside of 23.29%. Given nVent Electric's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe nVent Electric is more favorable than Baker Hughes.
92.1% of Baker Hughes shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.1% of nVent Electric shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Baker Hughes shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of nVent Electric shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
nVent Electric has a net margin of 16.95% compared to Baker Hughes' net margin of 8.20%. nVent Electric's return on equity of 15.66% beat Baker Hughes' return on equity.
Baker Hughes has a beta of 1.39, indicating that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, nVent Electric has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Baker Hughes pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. nVent Electric pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Baker Hughes pays out 37.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. nVent Electric pays out 23.5% 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.
Baker Hughes has higher revenue and earnings than nVent Electric. Baker Hughes is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than nVent Electric, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Baker Hughes had 8 more articles in the media than nVent Electric. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Baker Hughes and 11 mentions for nVent Electric. nVent Electric's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Baker Hughes' score of 0.59 indicating that nVent Electric is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
nVent Electric received 42 more outperform votes than Baker Hughes when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.46% of users gave nVent Electric an outperform vote while only 64.13% of users gave Baker Hughes an outperform vote.
Summary
nVent Electric beats Baker Hughes on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:NVT) was last updated on 1/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
