ROK vs. XYL, IR, DOV, AXON, TS, HUBB, BALL, FERG, JCI, and IEX
Should you be buying Rockwell Automation stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rockwell Automation include Xylem (XYL), Ingersoll Rand (IR), Dover (DOV), Axon Enterprise (AXON), Tenaris (TS), Hubbell (HUBB), Ball (BALL), Ferguson (FERG), Johnson Controls International (JCI), and IDEX (IEX). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Xylem (NYSE:XYL) and Rockwell Automation (NYSE:ROK) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Rockwell Automation has a net margin of 13.35% compared to Rockwell Automation's net margin of 8.27%. Xylem's return on equity of 37.22% beat Rockwell Automation's return on equity.
Rockwell Automation received 94 more outperform votes than Xylem when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.82% of users gave Xylem an outperform vote while only 55.24% of users gave Rockwell Automation an outperform vote.
Rockwell Automation has higher revenue and earnings than Xylem. Rockwell Automation is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Xylem, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Xylem currently has a consensus price target of $138.11, suggesting a potential upside of 4.31%. Rockwell Automation has a consensus price target of $310.08, suggesting a potential upside of 10.69%. Given Xylem's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Rockwell Automation is more favorable than Xylem.
In the previous week, Rockwell Automation had 1 more articles in the media than Xylem. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Rockwell Automation and 11 mentions for Xylem. Xylem's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Rockwell Automation's score of 0.50 indicating that Rockwell Automation is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Xylem has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rockwell Automation has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Xylem pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Rockwell Automation pays an annual dividend of $5.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Xylem pays out 52.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Rockwell Automation pays out 47.6% 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. Xylem has raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years and Rockwell Automation has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years. Rockwell Automation is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
88.0% of Xylem shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.8% of Rockwell Automation shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Xylem shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Rockwell Automation shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Rockwell Automation beats Xylem on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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