MTD vs. A, ILMN, WAT, TECH, CRL, BRKR, BIO, PACB, LIFE, and HBIO
Should you be buying Mettler-Toledo International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mettler-Toledo International include Agilent Technologies (A), Illumina (ILMN), Waters (WAT), Bio-Techne (TECH), Charles River Laboratories International (CRL), Bruker (BRKR), Bio-Rad Laboratories (BIO), Pacific Biosciences of California (PACB), aTyr Pharma (LIFE), and Harvard Bioscience (HBIO). These companies are all part of the "life sciences tools & services" industry.
Agilent Technologies (NYSE:A) and Mettler-Toledo International (NYSE:MTD) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Agilent Technologies has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mettler-Toledo International has a beta of 1.2, meaning that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Agilent Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Mettler-Toledo International. Agilent Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mettler-Toledo International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Agilent Technologies had 14 more articles in the media than Mettler-Toledo International. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Agilent Technologies and 17 mentions for Mettler-Toledo International. Agilent Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Mettler-Toledo International's score of 0.36 indicating that Mettler-Toledo International is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Agilent Technologies received 488 more outperform votes than Mettler-Toledo International when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.64% of users gave Agilent Technologies an outperform vote while only 57.37% of users gave Mettler-Toledo International an outperform vote.
95.1% of Mettler-Toledo International shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of Mettler-Toledo International shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Mettler-Toledo International has a net margin of 20.55% compared to Mettler-Toledo International's net margin of 18.84%. Mettler-Toledo International's return on equity of 26.25% beat Agilent Technologies' return on equity.
Agilent Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $136.50, suggesting a potential upside of 2.65%. Mettler-Toledo International has a consensus price target of $1,256.25, suggesting a potential downside of 12.67%. Given Mettler-Toledo International's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Agilent Technologies is more favorable than Mettler-Toledo International.
Summary
Agilent Technologies and Mettler-Toledo International tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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