ELSE vs. SYPR, CLIR, SMIT, DHR, ROP, AME, FTV, KEYS, MKSI, and CGNX
Should you be buying Electro-Sensors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Electro-Sensors include Sypris Solutions (SYPR), ClearSign Technologies (CLIR), Schmitt Industries (SMIT), Danaher (DHR), Roper Technologies (ROP), AMETEK (AME), Fortive (FTV), Keysight Technologies (KEYS), MKS Instruments (MKSI), and Cognex (CGNX). These companies are all part of the "process control instruments" industry.
Electro-Sensors (NASDAQ:ELSE) and Sypris Solutions (NASDAQ:SYPR) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, risk and community ranking.
Electro-Sensors has a net margin of 3.77% compared to Sypris Solutions' net margin of -2.61%. Electro-Sensors' return on equity of 2.42% beat Sypris Solutions' return on equity.
Electro-Sensors has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Sypris Solutions. Sypris Solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Electro-Sensors, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
11.7% of Electro-Sensors shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.7% of Sypris Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. 13.3% of Electro-Sensors shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 47.4% of Sypris Solutions shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Sypris Solutions received 57 more outperform votes than Electro-Sensors when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 42.00% of users gave Sypris Solutions an outperform vote while only 35.43% of users gave Electro-Sensors an outperform vote.
Electro-Sensors has a beta of 0.36, meaning that its share price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sypris Solutions has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Sypris Solutions had 3 more articles in the media than Electro-Sensors. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Sypris Solutions and 0 mentions for Electro-Sensors. Sypris Solutions' average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Electro-Sensors' score of 0.00 indicating that Sypris Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Sypris Solutions beats Electro-Sensors on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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