POWL vs. LZ, TNC, UFPT, EPAC, HEES, B, SXI, HLIO, XRX, and KMT
Should you be buying Powell Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Powell Industries include LegalZoom.com (LZ), Tennant (TNC), UFP Technologies (UFPT), Enerpac Tool Group (EPAC), H&E Equipment Services (HEES), Barnes Group (B), Standex International (SXI), Helios Technologies (HLIO), Xerox (XRX), and Kennametal (KMT). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
LegalZoom.com (NASDAQ:LZ) and Powell Industries (NASDAQ:POWL) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
Powell Industries has a net margin of 12.05% compared to Powell Industries' net margin of 3.15%. LegalZoom.com's return on equity of 27.93% beat Powell Industries' return on equity.
LegalZoom.com currently has a consensus target price of $14.75, suggesting a potential upside of 73.53%. Given Powell Industries' higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe LegalZoom.com is more favorable than Powell Industries.
Powell Industries has higher revenue and earnings than LegalZoom.com. Powell Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LegalZoom.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Powell Industries received 187 more outperform votes than LegalZoom.com when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.38% of users gave Powell Industries an outperform vote while only 36.11% of users gave LegalZoom.com an outperform vote.
82.0% of LegalZoom.com shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of Powell Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.5% of LegalZoom.com shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Powell Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
LegalZoom.com has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Powell Industries has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, LegalZoom.com had 8 more articles in the media than Powell Industries. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for LegalZoom.com and 7 mentions for Powell Industries. Powell Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat LegalZoom.com's score of 0.72 indicating that LegalZoom.com is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Powell Industries beats LegalZoom.com on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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