BKR vs. FTV, TS, FTI, WFRD, DVN, HAL, TRP, FANG, LNG, and CVE
Should you be buying Baker Hughes stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Baker Hughes include Fortive (FTV), Tenaris (TS), TechnipFMC (FTI), Weatherford International (WFRD), Devon Energy (DVN), Halliburton (HAL), TC Energy (TRP), Diamondback Energy (FANG), Cheniere Energy (LNG), and Cenovus Energy (CVE).
Fortive (NYSE:FTV) and Baker Hughes (NASDAQ:BKR) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, dividends, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Fortive has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Baker Hughes has a beta of 1.44, meaning that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Fortive received 274 more outperform votes than Baker Hughes when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.69% of users gave Fortive an outperform vote while only 59.36% of users gave Baker Hughes an outperform vote.
Fortive presently has a consensus target price of $86.46, indicating a potential upside of 11.64%. Baker Hughes has a consensus target price of $40.94, indicating a potential upside of 24.89%. Given Fortive's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Baker Hughes is more favorable than Fortive.
Fortive has a net margin of 14.68% compared to Fortive's net margin of 6.95%. Baker Hughes' return on equity of 12.22% beat Fortive's return on equity.
Baker Hughes has higher revenue and earnings than Fortive. Baker Hughes is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fortive, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fortive pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Baker Hughes pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Fortive pays out 12.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Baker Hughes pays out 46.9% 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. Fortive has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Baker Hughes has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Baker Hughes is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Baker Hughes had 6 more articles in the media than Fortive. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Baker Hughes and 7 mentions for Fortive. Baker Hughes' average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Fortive's score of 0.75 indicating that Fortive is being referred to more favorably in the media.
94.9% of Fortive shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.1% of Baker Hughes shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Fortive shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Baker Hughes shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Fortive beats Baker Hughes on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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