VNT vs. BMI, BR, SYM, APTV, BAH, STX, CPAY, OMC, J, and GEN
Should you be buying Vontier stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vontier include Badger Meter (BMI), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), Symbotic (SYM), Aptiv (APTV), Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), Seagate Technology (STX), Corpay (CPAY), Omnicom Group (OMC), Jacobs Solutions (J), and Gen Digital (GEN).
Badger Meter (NYSE:BMI) and Vontier (NYSE:VNT) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Badger Meter has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vontier has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Badger Meter received 239 more outperform votes than Vontier when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.69% of users gave Badger Meter an outperform vote while only 47.95% of users gave Vontier an outperform vote.
Badger Meter presently has a consensus target price of $164.80, indicating a potential downside of 11.13%. Vontier has a consensus target price of $45.00, indicating a potential upside of 15.33%. Given Badger Meter's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Vontier is more favorable than Badger Meter.
Vontier has a net margin of 14.02% compared to Vontier's net margin of 13.81%. Badger Meter's return on equity of 54.84% beat Vontier's return on equity.
Vontier has higher revenue and earnings than Badger Meter. Vontier is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Badger Meter, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Badger Meter pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Vontier pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Badger Meter pays out 31.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Vontier pays out 3.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
In the previous week, Badger Meter had 3 more articles in the media than Vontier. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Badger Meter and 6 mentions for Vontier. Vontier's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Badger Meter's score of 0.92 indicating that Badger Meter is being referred to more favorably in the media.
89.0% of Badger Meter shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.8% of Vontier shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Badger Meter shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Vontier shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Badger Meter and Vontier tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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