Alfa Laval (OTCMKTS:ALFVY) versus NWS (OTCMKTS:NWSZF) Head to Head Contrast

Alfa Laval (OTCMKTS:ALFVY) and NWS (OTCMKTS:NWSZF) are both industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, risk and analyst recommendations.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

0.0% of Alfa Laval shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.4% of NWS shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Dividends

Alfa Laval pays an annual dividend of $0.61 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. NWS pays an annual dividend of $0.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 56.4%. Alfa Laval pays out 28.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. NWS pays out 53.0% 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.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations for Alfa Laval and NWS, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Alfa Laval	1	2	4	0	2.43
NWS	0	0	0	0	0.00

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Alfa Laval and NWS”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Alfa Laval	$7.12 billion	3.44	$845.40 million	$2.11	28.10
NWS	N/A	N/A	N/A	$1.17	0.94

Alfa Laval has higher revenue and earnings than NWS. NWS is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alfa Laval, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares Alfa Laval and NWS’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Alfa Laval	11.63%	18.60%	8.28%
NWS	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

Alfa Laval beats NWS on 9 of the 11 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 NWS

NWS Holdings Limited, an investment holding company, operates in the toll roads, construction, insurance, logistics, and facilities management businesses in Hong Kong, Mainland China, and internationally. It engages in the development of, investment in, and/or operation of toll roads. The company also offers general contracting, construction management, and civil engineering and foundation works services for the residential, commercial, governmental, and institutional sectors. In addition, it provides diversified insurance and financial planning products and services, including life insurance, medical insurance, critical illness insurance, personal accident insurance, saving insurance plans, annuity, and investment-linked assurance schemes for individuals and institutions. Further, the company invests and manages various logistics projects; and develops rail container terminal. Additionally, it manages and operates venues for exhibitions, conventions, meetings, entertainment events, banquets and catering events, etc.; and Gleneagles hospital Hong Kong. Further, the company engages in the retail of duty free tobacco, liquor, perfume, cosmetics, package food, and general merchandise. In addition, the company offers commercial complex and hotel management services; property investment, agency, and management and consultancy services; general trading, bond issuing, distressed asset management, and carpark management services. The company was formerly known as Pacific Ports Co Limited and changed its name to NWS Holdings Limited in January 2003. NWS Holdings Limited is headquartered in Cheung Sha Wan, Hong Kong. As of November 23, 2023, NWS Holdings Limited operates as a subsidiary of Chow Tai Fook Enterprises Limited.