XYL vs. IEX, GGG, IR, ROK, DOV, JCI, AXON, FERG, BALL, and GWW
Should you be buying Xylem stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Xylem include IDEX (IEX), Graco (GGG), Ingersoll Rand (IR), Rockwell Automation (ROK), Dover (DOV), Johnson Controls International (JCI), Axon Enterprise (AXON), Ferguson (FERG), Ball (BALL), and W.W. Grainger (GWW). 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 stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
In the previous week, Xylem had 35 more articles in the media than IDEX. MarketBeat recorded 47 mentions for Xylem and 12 mentions for IDEX. IDEX's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Xylem's score of 0.62 indicating that IDEX is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
IDEX has a net margin of 17.89% compared to Xylem's net margin of 8.34%. IDEX's return on equity of 17.60% beat Xylem's return on equity.
Xylem pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. IDEX pays an annual dividend of $2.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Xylem pays out 51.2% 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 presently has a consensus target price of $140.70, indicating a potential downside of 0.07%. IDEX has a consensus target price of $250.71, indicating a potential upside of 13.17%. Given IDEX's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe IDEX is more favorable than Xylem.
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.
Xylem received 57 more outperform votes than IDEX when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.88% of users gave Xylem an outperform vote while only 58.42% of users gave IDEX an outperform vote.
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 company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of IDEX shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
IDEX beats Xylem on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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