AXON vs. HUBB, BALL, TS, AVY, DOV, ZBRA, IEX, PKG, CNHI, and GGG
Should you be buying Axon Enterprise stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Axon Enterprise include Hubbell (HUBB), 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 stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, valuation, earnings and community ranking.
88.2% of Hubbell shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.1% of Axon Enterprise shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Hubbell shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.7% of Axon Enterprise 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.
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.
Hubbell presently has a consensus target price of $386.57, suggesting a potential downside of 3.25%. Axon Enterprise has a consensus target price of $335.27, suggesting a potential upside of 16.83%. Given Hubbell's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Axon Enterprise is more favorable than Hubbell.
Axon Enterprise has a net margin of 15.60% compared to Axon Enterprise's net margin of 13.23%. Axon Enterprise's return on equity of 29.55% beat Hubbell's return on equity.
Hubbell has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Axon Enterprise has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
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. Hubbell's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Axon Enterprise's score of 0.38 indicating that Axon Enterprise is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Axon Enterprise beats Hubbell on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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