FLS vs. GGG, IEX, TKR, GTLS, ADT, MLI, AA, BERY, ESAB, and ATKR
Should you be buying Flowserve stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Flowserve include Graco (GGG), IDEX (IEX), Timken (TKR), Chart Industries (GTLS), ADT (ADT), Mueller Industries (MLI), Alcoa (AA), Berry Global Group (BERY), ESAB (ESAB), and Atkore (ATKR). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Graco (NYSE:GGG) and Flowserve (NYSE:FLS) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, profitability, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership and dividends.
93.9% of Graco shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.9% of Flowserve shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Graco shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Flowserve shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Graco has a net margin of 23.15% compared to Graco's net margin of 4.32%. Flowserve's return on equity of 23.01% beat Graco's return on equity.
Graco has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Flowserve. Graco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Flowserve, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Graco has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Flowserve has a beta of 1.46, suggesting that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Graco had 15 more articles in the media than Flowserve. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Graco and 7 mentions for Flowserve. Graco's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Flowserve's score of 0.10 indicating that Flowserve is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Graco pays an annual dividend of $1.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Flowserve pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Graco pays out 35.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Flowserve pays out 59.6% 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. Graco has raised its dividend for 28 consecutive years and Flowserve has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Graco currently has a consensus price target of $88.25, indicating a potential upside of 6.89%. Flowserve has a consensus price target of $48.25, indicating a potential upside of 3.19%. Given Flowserve's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Graco is more favorable than Flowserve.
Flowserve received 186 more outperform votes than Graco when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.62% of users gave Flowserve an outperform vote while only 60.86% of users gave Graco an outperform vote.
Summary
Graco beats Flowserve on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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