WSO.B vs. TEL, FERG, USFD, PFGC, CNM, SITE, INGM, AVT, GMS, and REZI
Should you be buying Watsco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Watsco include TE Connectivity (TEL), Ferguson (FERG), US Foods (USFD), Performance Food Group (PFGC), Core & Main (CNM), SiteOne Landscape Supply (SITE), Ingram Micro (INGM), Avnet (AVT), GMS (GMS), and Resideo Technologies (REZI). These companies are all part of the "wholesale" industry.
Watsco vs.
TE Connectivity (NYSE:TEL) and Watsco (NYSE:WSO.B) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
TE Connectivity currently has a consensus target price of $167.00, suggesting a potential upside of 10.92%. Given TE Connectivity's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe TE Connectivity is more favorable than Watsco.
TE Connectivity has higher revenue and earnings than Watsco. TE Connectivity is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Watsco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
91.4% of TE Connectivity shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.1% of Watsco shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of TE Connectivity shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.8% of Watsco shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
TE Connectivity pays an annual dividend of $2.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Watsco pays an annual dividend of $10.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. TE Connectivity pays out 45.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Watsco pays out 81.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. TE Connectivity has raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years.
TE Connectivity has a net margin of 12.10% compared to Watsco's net margin of 7.04%. TE Connectivity's return on equity of 18.82% beat Watsco's return on equity.
In the previous week, TE Connectivity had 34 more articles in the media than Watsco. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for TE Connectivity and 0 mentions for Watsco. TE Connectivity's average media sentiment score of 1.51 beat Watsco's score of 0.00 indicating that TE Connectivity is being referred to more favorably in the media.
TE Connectivity has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Watsco has a beta of 0.52, suggesting that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
TE Connectivity received 557 more outperform votes than Watsco when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.49% of users gave TE Connectivity an outperform vote while only 61.11% of users gave Watsco an outperform vote.
Summary
TE Connectivity beats Watsco on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:WSO.B) was last updated on 3/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
