ROP vs. AME, FTV, KEYS, SNOW, CARR, MSI, MCHP, AMX, TEAM, and NTES
Should you be buying Roper Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Roper Technologies include AMETEK (AME), Fortive (FTV), Keysight Technologies (KEYS), Snowflake (SNOW), Carrier Global (CARR), Motorola Solutions (MSI), Microchip Technology (MCHP), América Móvil (AMX), Atlassian (TEAM), and NetEase (NTES). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Roper Technologies (NYSE:ROP) and AMETEK (NYSE:AME) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.
93.3% of Roper Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.4% of AMETEK shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Roper Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of AMETEK shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
AMETEK received 41 more outperform votes than Roper Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.18% of users gave AMETEK an outperform vote while only 65.24% of users gave Roper Technologies an outperform vote.
Roper Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than AMETEK. AMETEK is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Roper Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Roper Technologies has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, AMETEK has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Roper Technologies has a net margin of 23.21% compared to AMETEK's net margin of 19.57%. AMETEK's return on equity of 17.74% beat Roper Technologies' return on equity.
In the previous week, AMETEK had 12 more articles in the media than Roper Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for AMETEK and 10 mentions for Roper Technologies. Roper Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.56 beat AMETEK's score of 0.91 indicating that Roper Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Roper Technologies pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. AMETEK pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Roper Technologies pays out 21.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AMETEK pays out 19.7% 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. AMETEK is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Roper Technologies presently has a consensus price target of $584.82, indicating a potential upside of 7.92%. AMETEK has a consensus price target of $179.80, indicating a potential upside of 7.79%. Given Roper Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Roper Technologies is more favorable than AMETEK.
Summary
Roper Technologies beats AMETEK on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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