ALLE vs. ADT, RRX, TTEK, CCK, AOS, ATR, AMCR, PNR, LECO, and AGCO
Should you be buying Allegion stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Allegion include ADT (ADT), Regal Rexnord (RRX), Tetra Tech (TTEK), Crown (CCK), A. O. Smith (AOS), AptarGroup (ATR), Amcor (AMCR), Pentair (PNR), Lincoln Electric (LECO), and AGCO (AGCO). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
ADT (NYSE:ADT) and Allegion (NYSE:ALLE) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, dividends and earnings.
Allegion has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ADT. ADT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Allegion, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ADT presently has a consensus price target of $8.58, suggesting a potential upside of 28.95%. Allegion has a consensus price target of $127.83, suggesting a potential upside of 4.52%. Given Allegion's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe ADT is more favorable than Allegion.
Allegion has a net margin of 14.93% compared to Allegion's net margin of 12.81%. ADT's return on equity of 48.58% beat Allegion's return on equity.
87.2% of ADT shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.2% of Allegion shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of ADT shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Allegion shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
ADT has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its stock price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Allegion has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ADT pays an annual dividend of $0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Allegion pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. ADT pays out 31.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Allegion pays out 31.3% 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. ADT has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Allegion has raised its dividend for 10 consecutive years.
In the previous week, ADT had 2 more articles in the media than Allegion. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for ADT and 12 mentions for Allegion. ADT's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Allegion's score of 0.31 indicating that Allegion is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Allegion received 17 more outperform votes than ADT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.19% of users gave ADT an outperform vote while only 59.28% of users gave Allegion an outperform vote.
Summary
Allegion beats ADT on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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