IR vs. ITW, ZBRA, XYL, ROK, FERG, JCI, GWW, DOV, AXON, and TS
Should you be buying Ingersoll Rand stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ingersoll Rand include Illinois Tool Works (ITW), Zebra Technologies (ZBRA), Xylem (XYL), Rockwell Automation (ROK), Ferguson (FERG), Johnson Controls International (JCI), W.W. Grainger (GWW), Dover (DOV), Axon Enterprise (AXON), and Tenaris (TS). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Ingersoll Rand (NYSE:IR) and Illinois Tool Works (NYSE:ITW) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, risk and profitability.
Ingersoll Rand has a beta of 1.44, indicating that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Illinois Tool Works has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ingersoll Rand received 114 more outperform votes than Illinois Tool Works when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.37% of users gave Ingersoll Rand an outperform vote while only 57.31% of users gave Illinois Tool Works an outperform vote.
Illinois Tool Works has a net margin of 18.36% compared to Ingersoll Rand's net margin of 11.32%. Illinois Tool Works' return on equity of 96.60% beat Ingersoll Rand's return on equity.
Illinois Tool Works has higher revenue and earnings than Ingersoll Rand. Illinois Tool Works is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ingersoll Rand, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Ingersoll Rand had 1 more articles in the media than Illinois Tool Works. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Ingersoll Rand and 13 mentions for Illinois Tool Works. Ingersoll Rand's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Illinois Tool Works' score of 0.64 indicating that Ingersoll Rand is being referred to more favorably in the media.
95.3% of Ingersoll Rand shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.8% of Illinois Tool Works shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Ingersoll Rand shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Illinois Tool Works shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Ingersoll Rand pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Illinois Tool Works pays an annual dividend of $5.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Ingersoll Rand pays out 4.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Illinois Tool Works pays out 57.5% 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.
Ingersoll Rand presently has a consensus target price of $92.73, suggesting a potential downside of 0.83%. Illinois Tool Works has a consensus target price of $257.00, suggesting a potential upside of 3.51%. Given Illinois Tool Works' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Illinois Tool Works is more favorable than Ingersoll Rand.
Summary
Ingersoll Rand beats Illinois Tool Works on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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