HUBB vs. AXON, BALL, TS, AVY, DOV, ZBRA, IEX, PKG, CNHI, and GGG
Should you be buying Hubbell stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hubbell include Axon Enterprise (AXON), Ball (BALL), Tenaris (TS), Avery Dennison (AVY), Dover (DOV), Zebra Technologies (ZBRA), IDEX (IEX), Packaging Co. of America (PKG), CNH Industrial (CNHI), and Graco (GGG). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Hubbell (NYSE:HUBB) and Axon Enterprise (NASDAQ:AXON) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends and community ranking.
Axon Enterprise received 114 more outperform votes than Hubbell when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.11% of users gave Axon Enterprise an outperform vote while only 57.87% of users gave Hubbell an outperform vote.
Hubbell currently has a consensus target price of $386.57, suggesting a potential downside of 5.66%. Axon Enterprise has a consensus target price of $335.27, suggesting a potential upside of 17.05%. Given Axon Enterprise's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Axon Enterprise is more favorable than Hubbell.
Axon Enterprise has a net margin of 15.60% compared to Hubbell's net margin of 13.23%. Hubbell's return on equity of 29.55% beat Axon Enterprise's return on equity.
In the previous week, Hubbell had 1 more articles in the media than Axon Enterprise. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Hubbell and 10 mentions for Axon Enterprise. Axon Enterprise's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Hubbell's score of 0.38 indicating that Axon Enterprise is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Hubbell has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Axon Enterprise has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Hubbell has higher revenue and earnings than Axon Enterprise. Hubbell is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Axon Enterprise, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
88.2% of Hubbell shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.1% of Axon Enterprise shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Hubbell shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.7% of Axon Enterprise shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Axon Enterprise beats Hubbell on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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