CXT vs. WTS, MWA, B, HLIO, NISN, ZKIN, HIHO, AREB, PH, and RBA
Should you be buying Crane NXT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crane NXT include Watts Water Technologies (WTS), Mueller Water Products (MWA), Barnes Group (B), Helios Technologies (HLIO), Nisun International Enterprise Development Group (NISN), ZK International Group (ZKIN), Highway (HIHO), American Rebel (AREB), Parker-Hannifin (PH), and RB Global (RBA).
Crane NXT (NYSE:CXT) and Watts Water Technologies (NYSE:WTS) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
Crane NXT currently has a consensus target price of $81.50, indicating a potential upside of 33.89%. Watts Water Technologies has a consensus target price of $199.50, indicating a potential upside of 1.08%. Given Crane NXT's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Crane NXT is more favorable than Watts Water Technologies.
Crane NXT has a net margin of 13.26% compared to Watts Water Technologies' net margin of 12.53%. Crane NXT's return on equity of 25.50% beat Watts Water Technologies' return on equity.
Watts Water Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Crane NXT. Crane NXT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Watts Water Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Crane NXT has a beta of 1.36, suggesting that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Watts Water Technologies has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Watts Water Technologies received 291 more outperform votes than Crane NXT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave Crane NXT an outperform vote while only 56.90% of users gave Watts Water Technologies an outperform vote.
Crane NXT pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Watts Water Technologies pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Crane NXT pays out 20.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Watts Water Technologies pays out 17.9% 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.
77.5% of Crane NXT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.0% of Watts Water Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Crane NXT shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Watts Water Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Watts Water Technologies had 14 more articles in the media than Crane NXT. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Watts Water Technologies and 3 mentions for Crane NXT. Crane NXT's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Watts Water Technologies' score of 0.74 indicating that Crane NXT is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Crane NXT and Watts Water Technologies tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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