Alfa Laval (OTCMKTS:ALFVY – Get Free Report) and APi Group (NYSE:APG – Get Free Report) are both large-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
0.0% of Alfa Laval shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.6% of APi Group shares are held by institutional investors. 18.7% of APi Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Alfa Laval and APi Group”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Alfa Laval | $7.12 billion | 3.34 | $845.40 million | $2.11 | 27.31 |
| APi Group | $8.44 billion | 2.05 | $302.00 million | ($0.67) | -59.86 |
Alfa Laval has higher earnings, but lower revenue than APi Group. APi Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alfa Laval, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Risk and Volatility
Alfa Laval has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, APi Group has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Alfa Laval and APi Group, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Alfa Laval | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2.25 |
| APi Group | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 3.00 |
APi Group has a consensus price target of $52.71, indicating a potential upside of 31.45%. Given APi Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe APi Group is more favorable than Alfa Laval.
Profitability
This table compares Alfa Laval and APi Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Alfa Laval | 11.63% | 18.41% | 8.16% |
| APi Group | 3.99% | 37.59% | 14.07% |
Summary
APi Group beats Alfa Laval on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Alfa Laval
Alfa Laval Corporate AB provides heat transfer, separation, and fluid handling products and solutions worldwide. It operates in three divisions: Energy, Food & Water, and Marine. The company offers oil/gas-fired steam and composite steam boilers, exhaust gas economizer, and ballast water treatment systems, and exhaust gas cleaning products. It also provides sensing and control, cleaning validation, condition monitoring, agitators, tank, powder mixers, fittings, and tubes, as well as wall mounted cleaning nozzles, rotary jet and heads; and tank accessories and covers. In addition, the company offers centrifugal, rotary lobe, three screw, twin screw, and circumferential piston pumps. Further, it provides butterfly, control and check, double seal, diaphragm, double seat, regulating, safety, sampling, shutter, single seat, and ball valves. Additionally, the company offers heat exchanger, tube-in-tube heat exchangers, and process shell-and-tube heat exchangers. Furthermore, it provides finned tube air heat, scraped surface heat exchangers, and various plate heat exchangers, wet surface, and HYAC hybrid air coolers. The company also offers decanters and separator related products. It serves energy, utilities, home, personal care, food, dairy, beverage, marine, transportation, pharmaceutical, biotech, water, and wastewater industries. Alfa Laval Corporate AB was founded in 1883 and is headquartered in Lund, Sweden.
About APi Group
APi Group Corporation provides safety and specialty services worldwide. It operates through Safety Services and Specialty Services segments. The Safety Services segment offers solutions focusing on end-to-end integrated occupancy systems, such as fire protection services; heating, ventilation, and air conditioning solutions; and entry systems, which include the design, installation, inspection, and service of these integrated systems. The Specialty Services segment provides various infrastructure and specialized industrial plant services, including maintenance and repair of underground electric, gas, water, sewer, and telecommunications infrastructure. This segment offers engineering and design, fabrication, installation, maintenance service and repair, retrofitting and upgrading services, pipeline infrastructure, access and road construction, supporting facilities, and integrity management and maintenance to the energy industry. It serves customers in the public and private sectors, including commercial, industrial, distribution and fulfillment centers, manufacturing, education, healthcare, telecom, utilities, transmission and integrity, high tech, entertainment, government, and infrastructure markets. The company was formerly known as J2 Acquisition Limited and changed its name to APi Group Corporation in October 2019. APi Group Corporation was founded in 1926 and is headquartered in New Brighton, Minnesota.
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