Ingersoll-Rand
What analysts say:
- Buy, sell, or hold?: Analysts think investors should stand pat on Ingersoll-Rand with nine of 17 analysts rating it hold. Analysts don't like Ingersoll-Rand as much as competitor Standex International overall. One out of one analysts rate Standex International a buy compared to eight of 17 for Ingersoll-Rand.
- Revenue forecasts: On average, analysts predict $3.89 billion in revenue this quarter. That would represent a rise of 4.3% from the year-ago quarter.
- Wall Street earnings expectations: The average analyst estimate is earnings of $0.78 per share. Estimates range from $0.76 to $0.80.
What our community says:
CAPS All-Stars are solidly behind the stock with 99.4% assigning it an outperform rating. The community at large backs the All-Stars with 97.3% giving it a rating of outperform. Fools are bullish on Ingersoll-Rand and haven't been shy with their opinions lately, logging 311 posts in the past 30 days. Ingersoll-Rand has a bullish CAPS rating of five out of five stars that is about on par with the Fool community assessment.
Management:
Revenue has now gone up for three straight quarters. The company boosted its gross margin by 2.1 percentage points in the last quarter. Revenue rose 5.1% while cost of sales rose 2% to $2.71 billion from a year earlier.
Quarter | Q2 | Q1 | Q4 | Q3 |
Gross Margin | 30.4% | 28.3% | 27.2% | 28.9% |
Operating Margin | 12.2% | 7.4% | 8.4% | 10.9% |
Net Margin | 2.4% | (2.5%) | 5.7% | 6.2% |
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