CR vs. NPO, TNC, SXI, ROLL, TREX, CRS, GOGL, AIR, SNA, and TXT
Should you be buying Crane stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crane include Enpro (NPO), Tennant (TNC), Standex International (SXI), RBC Bearings (ROLL), Trex (TREX), Carpenter Technology (CRS), Golden Ocean Group (GOGL), AAR (AIR), Snap-on (SNA), and Textron (TXT). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Enpro (NYSE:NPO) and Crane (NYSE:CR) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Crane received 72 more outperform votes than Enpro when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.51% of users gave Enpro an outperform vote while only 59.47% of users gave Crane an outperform vote.
Enpro pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Crane pays an annual dividend of $0.82 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Enpro pays out 113.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Crane pays out 22.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Enpro has increased its dividend for 8 consecutive years and Crane has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Enpro is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Enpro has a beta of 1.55, indicating that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Crane has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Crane has a net margin of 13.10% compared to Crane's net margin of 2.10%. Enpro's return on equity of 24.45% beat Crane's return on equity.
Crane has higher revenue and earnings than Enpro. Crane is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Enpro, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
98.3% of Enpro shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.1% of Crane shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Enpro shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of Crane shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Crane had 25 more articles in the media than Enpro. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Crane and 3 mentions for Enpro. Crane's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Enpro's score of -0.10 indicating that Enpro is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Enpro presently has a consensus price target of $158.00, indicating a potential upside of 3.25%. Crane has a consensus price target of $137.00, indicating a potential downside of 4.51%. Given Crane's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Enpro is more favorable than Crane.
Summary
Crane beats Enpro on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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