Gartner (NYSE:IT – Get Free Report) and DKSH (OTCMKTS:DKSHF – Get Free Report) are both industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk, valuation and profitability.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Gartner and DKSH, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Gartner | 2 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2.00 |
| DKSH | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3.00 |
Gartner currently has a consensus price target of $173.10, suggesting a potential upside of 14.38%. Given Gartner’s higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Gartner is more favorable than DKSH.
Earnings and Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Gartner | $6.50 billion | 1.56 | $729.23 million | $10.12 | 14.95 |
| DKSH | N/A | N/A | N/A | $154.08 | 0.50 |
Gartner has higher revenue and earnings than DKSH. DKSH is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gartner, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
91.5% of Gartner shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.4% of DKSH shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Gartner shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Profitability
This table compares Gartner and DKSH’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Gartner | 11.44% | 161.39% | 12.74% |
| DKSH | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Summary
Gartner beats DKSH on 9 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Gartner
Gartner, Inc. operates as a research and advisory company in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Research, Conferences, and Consulting. The Research segment delivers its research primarily through a subscription service that include on-demand access to published research content, data and benchmarks, and direct access to a network of research experts. The Conferences segment offers executives and teams in an organization the opportunity to learn, share, and network. The Consulting segment offers market-leading research, custom analysis, and on-the-ground support services. This segment also offers actionable solutions for IT-related priorities, including IT cost optimization, digital transformation, and IT sourcing optimization. Gartner, Inc. was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.
About DKSH
DKSH Holding AG provides various market expansion services in Thailand, Greater China, Malaysia, Singapore, rest of the Asia Pacific, and internationally. The company offers sourcing, market insights, marketing, sales, eCommerce, distribution, logistics, and after-sales services. It operates through four segments: Healthcare, Consumer Goods, Performance Materials, and Technology. The Healthcare segment provides various services, such as registration, regulatory, market entry studies, importation, customs clearance, marketing and sales, physical distribution, invoicing, and cash collection services for ethical pharmaceuticals, consumer health, and over-the-counter health products, as well as medical devices. The Consumer Goods segment offers a range of services, including product feasibility studies, registration, importation, customs clearance, marketing and merchandising, sales, warehousing, physical distribution, invoicing, cash collection, and after-sales services for fast moving consumer goods, food services, luxury goods, and fashion and lifestyle products, as well as hair and skin cosmetics. The Performance Materials segment sources, markets, and distributes a range of specialty chemicals and ingredients for the pharmaceutical, personal care, food and beverage, and industrial applications, as well as provides market expansion services for performance materials. The Technology segment offers market expansion services comprising a range of capital investment goods and analytical instruments in the areas of infrastructure, industrial materials and supplies, precision and textile machinery, semiconductors, photovoltaic and electronics, agriculture, and hospitality, as well as specialized industrial applications. The company was founded in 1865 and is based in Zurich, Switzerland.
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