AXON vs. TS, DOV, HUBB, BALL, IEX, AVY, PKG, GGG, NDSN, and CNHI
Should you be buying Axon Enterprise stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Axon Enterprise include Tenaris (TS), Dover (DOV), Hubbell (HUBB), Ball (BALL), IDEX (IEX), Avery Dennison (AVY), Packaging Co. of America (PKG), Graco (GGG), Nordson (NDSN), and CNH Industrial (CNHI). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Tenaris (NYSE:TS) and Axon Enterprise (NASDAQ:AXON) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, valuation and earnings.
Axon Enterprise received 20 more outperform votes than Tenaris when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.84% of users gave Axon Enterprise an outperform vote while only 61.88% of users gave Tenaris an outperform vote.
Tenaris has higher revenue and earnings than Axon Enterprise. Tenaris is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Axon Enterprise, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
10.5% of Tenaris shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.1% of Axon Enterprise shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Tenaris shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.7% of Axon Enterprise shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Tenaris has a net margin of 24.89% compared to Tenaris' net margin of 11.14%. Axon Enterprise's return on equity of 21.50% beat Tenaris' return on equity.
Tenaris currently has a consensus price target of $41.93, suggesting a potential upside of 21.16%. Axon Enterprise has a consensus price target of $314.91, suggesting a potential upside of 2.17%. Given Axon Enterprise's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Tenaris is more favorable than Axon Enterprise.
Tenaris has a beta of 1.47, meaning that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Axon Enterprise has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Axon Enterprise had 18 more articles in the media than Tenaris. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Axon Enterprise and 9 mentions for Tenaris. Axon Enterprise's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Tenaris' score of 0.46 indicating that Tenaris is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Tenaris and Axon Enterprise tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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