PX vs. NOAH, BSIG, BRDG, ABL, BBDC, FDUS, VINP, ALTI, DHIL, and VALU
Should you be buying Praxair stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Praxair include Noah (NOAH), BrightSphere Investment Group (BSIG), Bridge Investment Group (BRDG), Abacus Life (ABL), Barings BDC (BBDC), Fidus Investment (FDUS), Vinci Partners Investments (VINP), AlTi Global (ALTI), Diamond Hill Investment Group (DHIL), and Value Line (VALU). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
Noah (NYSE:NOAH) and Praxair (NYSE:PX) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
Noah has higher revenue and earnings than Praxair. Praxair is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Noah, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Noah pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Praxair pays an annual dividend of $0.13 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Noah pays out 17.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Praxair pays out -260.0% 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. Noah has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Praxair has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Noah and Noah both had 1 articles in the media. Praxair's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Noah's score of 0.00 indicating that Noah is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Praxair received 280 more outperform votes than Noah when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.92% of users gave Praxair an outperform vote while only 58.09% of users gave Noah an outperform vote.
Noah has a net margin of 33.36% compared to Noah's net margin of -2.95%. Noah's return on equity of 23.70% beat Praxair's return on equity.
42.7% of Noah shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.1% of Praxair shares are owned by institutional investors. 47.2% of Noah shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 28.6% of Praxair shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Noah currently has a consensus price target of $18.00, suggesting a potential upside of 37.51%. Praxair has a consensus price target of $10.67, suggesting a potential upside of 44.44%. Given Noah's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Praxair is more favorable than Noah.
Noah has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Praxair has a beta of 0.59, suggesting that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Noah beats Praxair on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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