ZBRA vs. ZWS, GTES, GHM, TWIN, GTEC, IR, IEX, PKG, AVY, and NDSN
Should you be buying Zebra Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Zebra Technologies include Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (ZWS), Gates Industrial (GTES), Graham (GHM), Twin Disc (TWIN), Greenland Technologies (GTEC), Ingersoll Rand (IR), IDEX (IEX), Packaging Co. of America (PKG), Avery Dennison (AVY), and Nordson (NDSN).
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (NYSE:ZWS) and Zebra Technologies (NASDAQ:ZBRA) are both 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, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking and dividends.
In the previous week, Zebra Technologies had 36 more articles in the media than Zurn Elkay Water Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 42 mentions for Zebra Technologies and 6 mentions for Zurn Elkay Water Solutions. Zebra Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Zurn Elkay Water Solutions' score of 0.52 indicating that Zurn Elkay Water Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Zebra Technologies received 468 more outperform votes than Zurn Elkay Water Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.14% of users gave Zebra Technologies an outperform vote while only 41.51% of users gave Zurn Elkay Water Solutions an outperform vote.
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zebra Technologies has a beta of 1.76, suggesting that its stock price is 76% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Zebra Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Zurn Elkay Water Solutions. Zurn Elkay Water Solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Zebra Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions currently has a consensus price target of $33.50, suggesting a potential upside of 5.88%. Zebra Technologies has a consensus price target of $310.64, suggesting a potential upside of 0.34%. Given Zebra Technologies' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Zurn Elkay Water Solutions is more favorable than Zebra Technologies.
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions has a net margin of 8.11% compared to Zurn Elkay Water Solutions' net margin of 5.99%. Zurn Elkay Water Solutions' return on equity of 13.05% beat Zebra Technologies' return on equity.
83.3% of Zurn Elkay Water Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.0% of Zebra Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 3.8% of Zurn Elkay Water Solutions shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Zebra Technologies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Zebra Technologies beats Zurn Elkay Water Solutions on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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