Pentair (NYSE:PNR) vs. JBDI (NASDAQ:JBDI) Head to Head Survey

Pentair (NYSE:PNR) and JBDI (NASDAQ:JBDI) are both business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations and profitability.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

92.4% of Pentair shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Pentair shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Pentair and JBDI’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Pentair	14.86%	21.62%	11.88%
JBDI	N/A	N/A	N/A

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Pentair and JBDI”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Pentair	$4.08 billion	4.50	$625.40 million	$3.66	30.61
JBDI	$9.39 million	4.28	-$980,000.00	N/A	N/A

Pentair has higher revenue and earnings than JBDI.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings for Pentair and JBDI, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Pentair	1	3	11	2	2.82
JBDI	1	0	0	0	1.00

Pentair currently has a consensus target price of $114.93, indicating a potential upside of 2.57%. Given Pentair’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Pentair is more favorable than JBDI.

Risk and Volatility

Pentair has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JBDI has a beta of -2, meaning that its stock price is 300% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Pentair beats JBDI on 13 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Pentair

Pentair plc provides various water solutions in the United States, Western Europe, China, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Australia, Canada, and Japan. The company operates through three segments: Flow, Water Solutions, and Pool. The Flow segment designs, manufactures, and sells fluid treatment and pump products and systems, including pressure vessels, gas recovery solutions, membrane bioreactors, wastewater reuse systems and advanced membrane filtration, separation systems, water disposal pumps, water supply pumps, fluid transfer pumps, turbine pumps, solid handling pumps, and agricultural spray nozzles for fluid delivery, ion exchange, desalination, food and beverage, separation technologies in the oil and gas industry, residential and municipal wells, water treatment, wastewater solids handling, pressure boosting, circulation and transfer, fire suppression, flood control, agricultural irrigation, and crop spray in residential, commercial, and industrial markets. The Water Solutions segment provides commercial and residential water treatment products and systems, including pressure tanks, control valves, activated carbon products, commercial ice machines, conventional filtration products, and point-of-entry and point-of-use water treatment systems, as well as installation and preventative services for use in residential whole home water filtration, drinking water filtration, and water softening solutions, as well as commercial total water management and filtration in foodservice operations. The Pool segment provides residential and commercial pool equipment and accessories comprising pumps, filters, heaters, lights, automatic controls, automatic cleaners, maintenance equipment, and pool accessories for applications in residential and commercial pool maintenance, pool repair, renovation, service, and construction and aquaculture solutions. Pentair plc was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

About JBDI

JBDI Holdings Limited engages in the trading of reconditioned and recycling containers in Singapore and the Southeast Asia region. The company offers reconditioning and recycling drums, including open top drums, metal drums, plastic drums, plastic carboys, and intermediate bulk containers, as well as new drums, and collects waste drums and related products. It serves solvent, chemical, petroleum, and edible product oil industries. The company was founded in 1983 and is based in Singapore. JBDI Holdings Limited operates as a subsidiary of E U Holdings Pte. Ltd.