FN vs. JBL, TRMB, IPGP, SANM, PLXS, TTMI, MRCY, CTS, BHE, and MEI
Should you be buying Fabrinet stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fabrinet include Jabil (JBL), Trimble (TRMB), IPG Photonics (IPGP), Sanmina (SANM), Plexus (PLXS), TTM Technologies (TTMI), Mercury Systems (MRCY), CTS (CTS), Benchmark Electronics (BHE), and Methode Electronics (MEI). These companies are all part of the "electronic manufacturing services" industry.
Jabil (NYSE:JBL) and Fabrinet (NYSE:FN) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
93.4% of Jabil shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.4% of Fabrinet shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Jabil shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Fabrinet shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Jabil presently has a consensus price target of $144.50, suggesting a potential upside of 20.82%. Fabrinet has a consensus price target of $161.00, suggesting a potential downside of 35.25%. Given Fabrinet's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Jabil is more favorable than Fabrinet.
Jabil has a beta of 1.42, indicating that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fabrinet has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Jabil and Jabil both had 11 articles in the media. Jabil's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Fabrinet's score of 0.54 indicating that Fabrinet is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Jabil received 23 more outperform votes than Fabrinet when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 74.14% of users gave Fabrinet an outperform vote while only 66.56% of users gave Jabil an outperform vote.
Jabil has higher revenue and earnings than Fabrinet. Jabil is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fabrinet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fabrinet has a net margin of 9.90% compared to Fabrinet's net margin of 4.70%. Fabrinet's return on equity of 39.47% beat Jabil's return on equity.
Summary
Jabil beats Fabrinet on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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