CARR vs. ROP, MSI, DASH, SNOW, AMX, NTES, MCHP, FTNT, SMCI, and WDAY
Should you be buying Carrier Global stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carrier Global include Roper Technologies (ROP), Motorola Solutions (MSI), DoorDash (DASH), Snowflake (SNOW), América Móvil (AMX), NetEase (NTES), Microchip Technology (MCHP), Fortinet (FTNT), Super Micro Computer (SMCI), and Workday (WDAY). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Roper Technologies (NYSE:ROP) and Carrier Global (NYSE:CARR) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, community ranking and dividends.
Roper Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Carrier Global. Roper Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carrier Global, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Roper Technologies has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Carrier Global has a beta of 1.34, meaning that its share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Roper Technologies pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Carrier Global pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Roper Technologies pays out 21.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Carrier Global pays out 53.1% 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. Roper Technologies has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Carrier Global has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Carrier Global is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
93.3% of Roper Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.0% of Carrier Global shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Roper Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.0% of Carrier Global shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Carrier Global had 16 more articles in the media than Roper Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Carrier Global and 10 mentions for Roper Technologies. Carrier Global's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Roper Technologies' score of 0.66 indicating that Roper Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Roper Technologies presently has a consensus target price of $584.82, suggesting a potential upside of 12.24%. Carrier Global has a consensus target price of $62.71, suggesting a potential downside of 2.50%. Given Carrier Global's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Roper Technologies is more favorable than Carrier Global.
Roper Technologies has a net margin of 23.21% compared to Roper Technologies' net margin of 5.41%. Roper Technologies' return on equity of 26.01% beat Carrier Global's return on equity.
Roper Technologies received 462 more outperform votes than Carrier Global when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.24% of users gave Roper Technologies an outperform vote while only 46.49% of users gave Carrier Global an outperform vote.
Summary
Roper Technologies beats Carrier Global on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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