LZ vs. OI, ALG, AMBP, MWA, AIN, ATMU, EPAC, ESE, KMT, and AZZ
Should you be buying LegalZoom.com stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LegalZoom.com include O-I Glass (OI), Alamo Group (ALG), Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMBP), Mueller Water Products (MWA), Albany International (AIN), Atmus Filtration Technologies (ATMU), Enerpac Tool Group (EPAC), ESCO Technologies (ESE), Kennametal (KMT), and AZZ (AZZ). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
O-I Glass (NYSE:OI) and LegalZoom.com (NASDAQ:LZ) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.
97.2% of O-I Glass shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.0% of LegalZoom.com shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of O-I Glass shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 10.5% of LegalZoom.com shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
O-I Glass presently has a consensus price target of $19.56, indicating a potential upside of 46.92%. LegalZoom.com has a consensus price target of $14.36, indicating a potential upside of 53.55%. Given O-I Glass' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe LegalZoom.com is more favorable than O-I Glass.
O-I Glass has a beta of 1.36, suggesting that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LegalZoom.com has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, LegalZoom.com had 1 more articles in the media than O-I Glass. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for LegalZoom.com and 20 mentions for O-I Glass. LegalZoom.com's average media sentiment score of 0.11 beat O-I Glass' score of 0.00 indicating that O-I Glass is being referred to more favorably in the media.
O-I Glass received 427 more outperform votes than LegalZoom.com when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.32% of users gave O-I Glass an outperform vote while only 35.21% of users gave LegalZoom.com an outperform vote.
LegalZoom.com has lower revenue, but higher earnings than O-I Glass. O-I Glass is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LegalZoom.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
LegalZoom.com has a net margin of 2.11% compared to LegalZoom.com's net margin of -3.45%. LegalZoom.com's return on equity of 18.25% beat O-I Glass' return on equity.
Summary
O-I Glass and LegalZoom.com tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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