SNA vs. POOL, NWS, NWSA, FWONA, FOX, MGM, FOXA, PARAA, H, and EDU
Should you be buying Snap-on stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Snap-on include Pool (POOL), News (NWS), News (NWSA), Formula One Group (FWONA), FOX (FOX), MGM Resorts International (MGM), FOX (FOXA), Paramount Global (PARAA), Hyatt Hotels (H), and New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Pool (NASDAQ:POOL) and Snap-on (NYSE:SNA) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
Pool presently has a consensus price target of $393.80, indicating a potential upside of 6.59%. Snap-on has a consensus price target of $316.75, indicating a potential upside of 16.89%. Given Pool's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Snap-on is more favorable than Pool.
Snap-on has a net margin of 21.69% compared to Snap-on's net margin of 9.17%. Snap-on's return on equity of 35.49% beat Pool's return on equity.
Pool pays an annual dividend of $4.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Snap-on pays an annual dividend of $7.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Pool pays out 34.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Snap-on pays out 39.0% 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. Pool has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years and Snap-on has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years. Snap-on is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Pool has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Snap-on has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Snap-on has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Pool. Snap-on is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pool, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Pool had 30 more articles in the media than Snap-on. MarketBeat recorded 76 mentions for Pool and 46 mentions for Snap-on. Pool's average media sentiment score of 0.35 beat Snap-on's score of 0.14 indicating that Snap-on is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Pool received 59 more outperform votes than Snap-on when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.95% of users gave Pool an outperform vote while only 61.18% of users gave Snap-on an outperform vote.
99.0% of Pool shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.9% of Snap-on shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of Pool shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of Snap-on shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Snap-on beats Pool on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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