GTES vs. ZBRA, ZWS, EFXT, GHM, TWIN, GTEC, ITW, IR, LII, and WSO.B
Should you be buying Gates Industrial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gates Industrial include Zebra Technologies (ZBRA), Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (ZWS), Enerflex (EFXT), Graham (GHM), Twin Disc (TWIN), Greenland Technologies (GTEC), Illinois Tool Works (ITW), Ingersoll Rand (IR), Lennox International (LII), and Watsco (WSO.B).
Gates Industrial (NYSE:GTES) and Zebra Technologies (NASDAQ:ZBRA) are both construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and valuation.
In the previous week, Gates Industrial and Gates Industrial both had 7 articles in the media. Zebra Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.57 beat Gates Industrial's score of 0.85 indicating that Zebra Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Gates Industrial presently has a consensus price target of $19.13, suggesting a potential upside of 16.12%. Zebra Technologies has a consensus price target of $312.27, suggesting a potential upside of 3.80%. Given Gates Industrial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Gates Industrial is more favorable than Zebra Technologies.
Zebra Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Gates Industrial. Gates Industrial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Zebra Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
98.5% of Gates Industrial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.0% of Zebra Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Gates Industrial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Zebra Technologies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Gates Industrial has a net margin of 6.97% compared to Zebra Technologies' net margin of 5.99%. Zebra Technologies' return on equity of 13.05% beat Gates Industrial's return on equity.
Gates Industrial has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zebra Technologies has a beta of 1.7, suggesting that its stock price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Zebra Technologies received 279 more outperform votes than Gates Industrial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.18% of users gave Zebra Technologies an outperform vote while only 54.64% of users gave Gates Industrial an outperform vote.
Summary
Zebra Technologies beats Gates Industrial on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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