ITRI vs. MWA, COHU, TRNS, SATS, AVT, VRNS, ZI, CVLT, STNE, and VERX
Should you be buying Itron stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Itron include Mueller Water Products (MWA), Cohu (COHU), Transcat (TRNS), EchoStar (SATS), Avnet (AVT), Varonis Systems (VRNS), ZoomInfo Technologies (ZI), Commvault Systems (CVLT), StoneCo (STNE), and Vertex (VERX).
Mueller Water Products (NYSE:MWA) and Itron (NASDAQ:ITRI) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking and risk.
Mueller Water Products has a net margin of 8.10% compared to Mueller Water Products' net margin of 7.03%. Itron's return on equity of 16.97% beat Mueller Water Products' return on equity.
Itron has higher revenue and earnings than Mueller Water Products. Mueller Water Products is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Itron, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
91.7% of Mueller Water Products shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.2% of Itron shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Mueller Water Products shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Itron shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Mueller Water Products has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Itron has a beta of 1.38, suggesting that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Mueller Water Products currently has a consensus target price of $20.00, indicating a potential upside of 7.87%. Itron has a consensus target price of $104.18, indicating a potential downside of 4.77%. Given Itron's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Mueller Water Products is more favorable than Itron.
In the previous week, Itron had 13 more articles in the media than Mueller Water Products. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Itron and 7 mentions for Mueller Water Products. Itron's average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat Mueller Water Products' score of 0.40 indicating that Mueller Water Products is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Itron received 133 more outperform votes than Mueller Water Products when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.01% of users gave Mueller Water Products an outperform vote while only 64.32% of users gave Itron an outperform vote.
Summary
Itron beats Mueller Water Products on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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