EMR vs. CTAS, PH, ITW, GWW, JCI, FERG, IR, ABBNY, XYL, and ROK
Should you be buying Emerson Electric stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Emerson Electric include Cintas (CTAS), Parker-Hannifin (PH), Illinois Tool Works (ITW), W.W. Grainger (GWW), Johnson Controls International (JCI), Ferguson (FERG), Ingersoll Rand (IR), ABB (ABBNY), Xylem (XYL), and Rockwell Automation (ROK). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Emerson Electric (NYSE:EMR) and Cintas (NASDAQ:CTAS) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
Emerson Electric has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cintas has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Emerson Electric has a net margin of 69.33% compared to Cintas' net margin of 15.98%. Cintas' return on equity of 37.19% beat Emerson Electric's return on equity.
74.3% of Emerson Electric shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.5% of Cintas shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Emerson Electric shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.9% of Cintas shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Emerson Electric had 11 more articles in the media than Cintas. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Emerson Electric and 8 mentions for Cintas. Emerson Electric's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Cintas' score of 0.70 indicating that Emerson Electric is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Emerson Electric has higher revenue and earnings than Cintas. Emerson Electric is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cintas, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Emerson Electric currently has a consensus target price of $116.25, suggesting a potential upside of 9.21%. Cintas has a consensus target price of $661.21, suggesting a potential downside of 0.36%. Given Emerson Electric's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Emerson Electric is more favorable than Cintas.
Emerson Electric received 168 more outperform votes than Cintas when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.16% of users gave Cintas an outperform vote while only 58.17% of users gave Emerson Electric an outperform vote.
Emerson Electric pays an annual dividend of $2.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Cintas pays an annual dividend of $5.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Emerson Electric pays out 10.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cintas pays out 37.3% 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. Emerson Electric is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Emerson Electric beats Cintas on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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