MRCY vs. SNPO, VPG, VSH, PRO, IONQ, GETY, PRFT, SPNS, AMBA, and VICR
Should you be buying Mercury Systems stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mercury Systems include Snap One (SNPO), Vishay Precision Group (VPG), Vishay Intertechnology (VSH), PROS (PRO), IonQ (IONQ), Getty Images (GETY), Perficient (PRFT), Sapiens International (SPNS), Ambarella (AMBA), and Vicor (VICR). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Snap One (NASDAQ:SNPO) and Mercury Systems (NASDAQ:MRCY) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings, dividends and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Snap One had 2 more articles in the media than Mercury Systems. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Snap One and 2 mentions for Mercury Systems. Snap One's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Mercury Systems' score of 0.58 indicating that Mercury Systems is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
92.7% of Snap One shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.0% of Mercury Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.8% of Snap One shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Mercury Systems shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Snap One has a net margin of -2.01% compared to Snap One's net margin of -9.54%. Mercury Systems' return on equity of 2.77% beat Snap One's return on equity.
Snap One has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mercury Systems has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Snap One has higher revenue and earnings than Mercury Systems. Snap One is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mercury Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Mercury Systems received 463 more outperform votes than Snap One when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.48% of users gave Mercury Systems an outperform vote while only 34.88% of users gave Snap One an outperform vote.
Snap One currently has a consensus target price of $11.05, indicating a potential upside of 4.25%. Mercury Systems has a consensus target price of $29.88, indicating a potential upside of 5.08%. Given Snap One's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Mercury Systems is more favorable than Snap One.
Summary
Snap One beats Mercury Systems on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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