ITW vs. IR, PH, CTAS, EMR, ABBNY, GWW, FERG, JCI, DE, and XYL
Should you be buying Illinois Tool Works stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Illinois Tool Works include Ingersoll Rand (IR), Parker-Hannifin (PH), Cintas (CTAS), Emerson Electric (EMR), ABB (ABBNY), W.W. Grainger (GWW), Ferguson (FERG), Johnson Controls International (JCI), Deere & Company (DE), and Xylem (XYL). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Ingersoll Rand (NYSE:IR) and Illinois Tool Works (NYSE:ITW) 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 institutional ownership, risk, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation and community ranking.
In the previous week, Ingersoll Rand had 5 more articles in the media than Illinois Tool Works. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for Ingersoll Rand and 28 mentions for Illinois Tool Works. Ingersoll Rand's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Illinois Tool Works' score of 0.35 indicating that Illinois Tool Works is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ingersoll Rand currently has a consensus price target of $95.82, suggesting a potential upside of 5.58%. Illinois Tool Works has a consensus price target of $257.78, suggesting a potential upside of 4.19%. Given Illinois Tool Works' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Ingersoll Rand is more favorable than Illinois Tool Works.
Ingersoll Rand received 115 more outperform votes than Illinois Tool Works when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.41% of users gave Ingersoll Rand an outperform vote while only 57.28% of users gave Illinois Tool Works an outperform vote.
Illinois Tool Works has higher revenue and earnings than Ingersoll Rand. Illinois Tool Works is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ingersoll Rand, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ingersoll Rand has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Illinois Tool Works has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
95.3% of Ingersoll Rand shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.8% of Illinois Tool Works shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Ingersoll Rand shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Illinois Tool Works shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ingersoll Rand pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Illinois Tool Works pays an annual dividend of $5.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Ingersoll Rand pays out 4.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Illinois Tool Works pays out 55.2% 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. Illinois Tool Works has increased its dividend for 54 consecutive years. Illinois Tool Works is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Illinois Tool Works has a net margin of 19.07% compared to Illinois Tool Works' net margin of 11.85%. Ingersoll Rand's return on equity of 97.82% beat Illinois Tool Works' return on equity.
Summary
Ingersoll Rand beats Illinois Tool Works on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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