ESAB vs. ATS, RRX, NDSN, TKR, FLS, MLI, GTLS, ADT, BERY, and SITE
Should you be buying ESAB stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ESAB include ATS (ATS), Regal Rexnord (RRX), Nordson (NDSN), Timken (TKR), Flowserve (FLS), Mueller Industries (MLI), Chart Industries (GTLS), ADT (ADT), Berry Global Group (BERY), and SiteOne Landscape Supply (SITE). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
ATS (NYSE:ATS) and ESAB (NYSE:ESAB) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.
ATS presently has a consensus price target of $48.00, suggesting a potential upside of 47.60%. ESAB has a consensus price target of $96.29, suggesting a potential downside of 9.45%. Given ESAB's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe ATS is more favorable than ESAB.
75.8% of ATS shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.1% of ESAB shares are held by institutional investors. 7.0% of ESAB shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
ESAB has higher revenue and earnings than ATS. ATS is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ESAB, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ESAB received 10 more outperform votes than ATS when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 37.50% of users gave ESAB an outperform vote while only 28.57% of users gave ATS an outperform vote.
ESAB has a net margin of 8.39% compared to ESAB's net margin of 6.39%. ATS's return on equity of 17.59% beat ESAB's return on equity.
In the previous week, ATS had 10 more articles in the media than ESAB. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for ATS and 6 mentions for ESAB. ATS's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat ESAB's score of 0.25 indicating that ESAB is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
ESAB beats ATS on 15 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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