BMI vs. TENB, FRSH, FYBR, SMAR, DV, NOVT, CLS, ALIT, LFUS, and HCP
Should you be buying Badger Meter stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Badger Meter include Tenable (TENB), Freshworks (FRSH), Frontier Communications Parent (FYBR), Smartsheet (SMAR), DoubleVerify (DV), Novanta (NOVT), Celestica (CLS), Alight (ALIT), Littelfuse (LFUS), and HashiCorp (HCP). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Badger Meter (NYSE:BMI) and Tenable (NASDAQ:TENB) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
Badger Meter has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tenable has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Badger Meter has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Tenable. Tenable is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Badger Meter, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Tenable had 20 more articles in the media than Badger Meter. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Tenable and 9 mentions for Badger Meter. Badger Meter's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Tenable's score of 0.27 indicating that Badger Meter is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Badger Meter received 17 more outperform votes than Tenable when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.27% of users gave Tenable an outperform vote while only 52.80% of users gave Badger Meter an outperform vote.
89.0% of Badger Meter shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.1% of Tenable shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Badger Meter shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Tenable shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Badger Meter has a net margin of 13.81% compared to Tenable's net margin of -9.80%. Badger Meter's return on equity of 20.26% beat Tenable's return on equity.
Badger Meter presently has a consensus target price of $164.80, suggesting a potential downside of 12.00%. Tenable has a consensus target price of $57.20, suggesting a potential upside of 26.52%. Given Tenable's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Tenable is more favorable than Badger Meter.
Summary
Badger Meter and Tenable tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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