WAB vs. DE, PCAR, CMI, TTC, AGCO, OSK, FSS, TEX, TRN, and ALG
Should you be buying Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies include Deere & Company (DE), PACCAR (PCAR), Cummins (CMI), Toro (TTC), AGCO (AGCO), Oshkosh (OSK), Federal Signal (FSS), Terex (TEX), Trinity Industries (TRN), and Alamo Group (ALG). These companies are all part of the "construction & farm machinery & heavy trucks" industry.
Deere & Company (NYSE:DE) and Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies (NYSE:WAB) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.
Deere & Company received 677 more outperform votes than Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.24% of users gave Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies an outperform vote while only 65.30% of users gave Deere & Company an outperform vote.
Deere & Company presently has a consensus price target of $432.92, suggesting a potential upside of 15.52%. Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies has a consensus price target of $156.18, suggesting a potential downside of 7.71%. Given Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies' higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Deere & Company is more favorable than Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies.
Deere & Company has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies has a beta of 1.36, suggesting that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Deere & Company has a net margin of 16.15% compared to Deere & Company's net margin of 9.20%. Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies' return on equity of 42.26% beat Deere & Company's return on equity.
68.6% of Deere & Company shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.7% of Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Deere & Company shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies shares are owned by company 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.
In the previous week, Deere & Company had 17 more articles in the media than Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Deere & Company and 3 mentions for Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies. Deere & Company's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies' score of 0.55 indicating that Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Deere & Company pays an annual dividend of $5.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Deere & Company pays out 17.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies pays out 15.6% 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. Deere & Company has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Deere & Company is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Deere & Company has higher revenue and earnings than Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies. Deere & Company is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Deere & Company beats Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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