ESAB vs. SYM, NDSN, RRX, ATS, HSAI, OUST, TAYD, RR, PDYN, and EKSO
Should you be buying ESAB stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ESAB include Symbotic (SYM), Nordson (NDSN), Regal Rexnord (RRX), ATS (ATS), Hesai Group (HSAI), Ouster (OUST), Taylor Devices (TAYD), Richtech Robotics (RR), Palladyne AI (PDYN), and Ekso Bionics (EKSO). These companies are all part of the "general industrial machinery," industry.
Symbotic (NASDAQ:SYM) and ESAB (NYSE:ESAB) are both business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership and dividends.
Symbotic currently has a consensus price target of $55.69, indicating a potential upside of 34.82%. ESAB has a consensus price target of $96.29, indicating a potential downside of 5.21%. Given ESAB's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Symbotic is more favorable than ESAB.
Symbotic received 25 more outperform votes than ESAB when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 46.84% of users gave Symbotic an outperform vote while only 37.50% of users gave ESAB an outperform vote.
ESAB has higher revenue and earnings than Symbotic. Symbotic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ESAB, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Symbotic has a beta of 1.97, meaning that its stock price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ESAB has a beta of 1.55, meaning that its stock price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ESAB has a net margin of 8.39% compared to ESAB's net margin of -1.27%. Symbotic's return on equity of 17.59% beat ESAB's return on equity.
91.1% of ESAB shares are held by institutional investors. 38.3% of Symbotic shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.2% of ESAB shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Symbotic had 17 more articles in the media than ESAB. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Symbotic and 7 mentions for ESAB. Symbotic's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat ESAB's score of 0.59 indicating that ESAB is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Symbotic and ESAB tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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