XYL vs. IEX, GGG, ROK, IR, DOV, AXON, BALL, FERG, HUBB, and TS
Should you be buying Xylem stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Xylem include IDEX (IEX), Graco (GGG), Rockwell Automation (ROK), Ingersoll Rand (IR), Dover (DOV), Axon Enterprise (AXON), Ball (BALL), Ferguson (FERG), Hubbell (HUBB), and Tenaris (TS). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Xylem (NYSE:XYL) and IDEX (NYSE:IEX) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, community ranking, risk and media sentiment.
Xylem received 54 more outperform votes than IDEX when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.82% of users gave Xylem an outperform vote while only 58.42% of users gave IDEX an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Xylem had 5 more articles in the media than IDEX. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Xylem and 17 mentions for IDEX. Xylem's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat IDEX's score of 0.62 indicating that Xylem is being referred to more favorably in the media.
88.0% of Xylem shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.0% of IDEX shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Xylem shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of IDEX shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Xylem currently has a consensus price target of $138.11, indicating a potential upside of 1.56%. IDEX has a consensus price target of $250.71, indicating a potential upside of 13.64%. Given IDEX's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe IDEX is more favorable than Xylem.
Xylem has higher revenue and earnings than IDEX. IDEX is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Xylem, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Xylem pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. IDEX pays an annual dividend of $2.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Xylem pays out 52.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. IDEX pays out 33.7% 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. IDEX is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Xylem has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IDEX has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
IDEX has a net margin of 17.89% compared to Xylem's net margin of 8.27%. IDEX's return on equity of 17.60% beat Xylem's return on equity.
Summary
IDEX beats Xylem on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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