Verdict: Side-by-side breakdown using the Bull Rankings model. DE scored 37.2, WTS scored 69.6 — WTS leads.
Compare another set
DE
Deere & Company
Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery · Quality-Growth
37.2
$620.93 · $167.4B
fundamentals as of
Score gap
32.4
WTS leads
WTS
Watts Water Technologies, Inc.
Specialty Industrial Machinery · Quality-Growth
69.6
$352.72 · $11.8B
fundamentals as of
At a glance · who leads each dimension, on the model's own rules
CheapestWTS30.8x
Fastest growthWTS+17.1%
Strongest balance sheetWTS0.10
Highest qualityWTS81 / 100
Side by side · every name on one set of axes
Growth against the P/E multiple. Up and to the right is cheaper and faster — the quality-growth idea in one picture. Points beyond the axis are pinned to the edge and marked off-scale rather than allowed to compress everything else.
The model, pillar by pillar (0–100 each)
DE
stronger →← stronger
WTS
61
Qualityreturns · margins · balance sheet
81
36
Growthrevenue & earnings expansion
85
23
Valuevaluation vs sector peers
49
WTS is stronger on 3 of 3 pillars.
Fundamentals, head-to-head
DE
WTS
$3.2bB
FCF
$349mC
-11.6%D
Rev
+17.1%B+
2.30D
D/E
0.10A
34.5xC+
P/E
30.8xC+
1.51C+
PEG
3.08D
Winner per row is the stronger grade; where grades tie, the better figure breaks it. A true tie or a missing value shows no highlight.
Valuation · DCF cross-check
DE
WTS
205% above
Price vs fair valuelower is cheaper
119% above
~33%/yr
Growth the price impliesyr-1 FCF growth, fading to 4% · lower = less priced in
~28%/yr
-68%
1-yr DCF upside
-58%
-67%
5-yr DCF upside
-54%
-66%
10-yr DCF upside
-49%
The DCF is a cross-check on intrinsic value, separate from the quality-growth score above.
Model signals
DE
No notable signals flagged.
WTS
Why this score
Raising its dividend
Durable high returns
The companies
DEDeere & Company
Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery · $620.93 · beta 0.87
Why now
Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery · market cap $167.4b. 14% off the 52-week high of $721.22. Revenue -12% — in contraction; any catalyst that reverses this triggers re-rating. 23 sell-side analysts rate this a Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $693.57 (implying +12% upside).
Moat
ROE 18% is above 15% — the equity base is compounding at a rate the market struggles to discount accurately. $167.4b market cap gives the company enough scale to absorb fixed costs that subscale competitors can't, without yet being so large that growth has to come from acquisition.
Risk
D/E 2.30 is elevated — limits strategic flexibility and raises refinancing exposure if rates stay higher for longer. Revenue contracting -12% — the operational turn is not yet visible in the top line. Trailing P/E 35x sits well above the S&P median (~20x) — multiple compression is a real risk if revenue growth decelerates.
Specialty Industrial Machinery · market cap $11.8b. 11% off the 52-week high of $394.54. Revenue growing +17%, comfortably above the S&P median. 7 sell-side analysts rate this a Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $404.00 (implying +15% upside).
Moat
Net margin 14% beats the market median by a meaningful margin — the company is keeping more of every revenue dollar than the average S&P constituent. ROE 18% is above 15% — the equity base is compounding at a rate the market struggles to discount accurately.
Risk
Trailing P/E 31x sits well above the S&P median (~20x) — multiple compression is a real risk if revenue growth decelerates.
Verdict — model-derived comparison
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Where DE and WTS diverge
On the headline score the gap is 32.4 points in favor of WTS. The widest single difference is Growth, where WTS leads by 48.5 points.
GrowthDE 36.2 · WTS 84.7WTS +48.5
ValueDE 23.3 · WTS 49.2WTS +25.9
QualityDE 61.3 · WTS 80.7WTS +19.4
Pillars run 0–100. Value is judged against each company's own sector, so a Value score is a statement about a company relative to its own industry rather than to the other name here. A wide Value gap usually means the market already prices the difference in quality or growth — which is the trade-off this comparison comes down to.
Common questions
Is WTS or DE the better stock?
WTS scores higher: WTS 69.6, DE 37.2 out of 100 on the Bull Rankings quality-growth score, which blends business quality, growth and valuation into one number. A higher score means a stronger business at a more reasonable price — it is not a price target or a recommendation.
Where do WTS and DE differ most?
The widest gap is growth, where WTS leads by 49 points on the 0–100 pillar scale. WTS leads all three pillars, so the gap is broad rather than a single-measure difference.
How are WTS and DE scored?
Each carries the same 0–100 quality-growth score used everywhere on the site, built from three pillars — quality (profitability and returns on capital), growth (revenue and earnings), and value (what you pay for them) — combined as a geometric mean, so a weak pillar cannot be papered over by a strong one.
How current is this comparison?
The whole universe is re-scored every trading day after the US market close, so the scores and fundamentals here reflect the latest published edition.