AVTR vs. A, MTD, WAT, ILMN, RVTY, BRKR, BIO, BIO.B, OLK, and TXG
Should you be buying Avantor stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Avantor include Agilent Technologies (A), Mettler-Toledo International (MTD), Waters (WAT), Illumina (ILMN), Revvity (RVTY), Bruker (BRKR), Bio-Rad Laboratories (BIO), Bio-Rad Laboratories (BIO.B), Olink Holding AB (publ) (OLK), and 10x Genomics (TXG). These companies are all part of the "analytical instruments" industry.
Avantor (NYSE:AVTR) and Agilent Technologies (NYSE:A) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Avantor has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Agilent Technologies has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Agilent Technologies received 686 more outperform votes than Avantor when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.70% of users gave Agilent Technologies an outperform vote while only 63.64% of users gave Avantor an outperform vote.
Agilent Technologies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Avantor. Agilent Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Avantor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
95.1% of Avantor shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Avantor shares are owned 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.
In the previous week, Agilent Technologies had 33 more articles in the media than Avantor. MarketBeat recorded 43 mentions for Agilent Technologies and 10 mentions for Avantor. Avantor's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Agilent Technologies' score of 0.22 indicating that Avantor is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Agilent Technologies has a net margin of 18.84% compared to Avantor's net margin of 3.79%. Agilent Technologies' return on equity of 26.25% beat Avantor's return on equity.
Avantor presently has a consensus price target of $26.71, suggesting a potential upside of 10.94%. Agilent Technologies has a consensus price target of $137.19, suggesting a potential upside of 5.20%. Given Avantor's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Avantor is more favorable than Agilent Technologies.
Summary
Avantor and Agilent Technologies tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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