QUAD vs. IRBT, TWIN, LXFR, DM, IPAX, EML, NNBR, TAYD, SSTI, and GHM
Should you be buying Quad/Graphics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Quad/Graphics include iRobot (IRBT), Twin Disc (TWIN), Luxfer (LXFR), Desktop Metal (DM), Inflection Point Acquisition (IPAX), Eastern (EML), NN (NNBR), Taylor Devices (TAYD), SoundThinking (SSTI), and Graham (GHM). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Quad/Graphics (NYSE:QUAD) and iRobot (NASDAQ:IRBT) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Quad/Graphics currently has a consensus price target of $8.50, indicating a potential upside of 77.82%. iRobot has a consensus price target of $13.00, indicating a potential upside of 15.86%. Given Quad/Graphics' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Quad/Graphics is more favorable than iRobot.
Quad/Graphics has a beta of 1.65, meaning that its stock price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, iRobot has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Quad/Graphics has higher revenue and earnings than iRobot. Quad/Graphics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than iRobot, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
iRobot received 286 more outperform votes than Quad/Graphics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.27% of users gave iRobot an outperform vote while only 65.24% of users gave Quad/Graphics an outperform vote.
Quad/Graphics has a net margin of -2.07% compared to iRobot's net margin of -24.42%. Quad/Graphics' return on equity of 18.67% beat iRobot's return on equity.
In the previous week, iRobot had 29 more articles in the media than Quad/Graphics. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for iRobot and 4 mentions for Quad/Graphics. iRobot's average media sentiment score of 0.22 beat Quad/Graphics' score of 0.09 indicating that iRobot is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
39.5% of Quad/Graphics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.4% of iRobot shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.0% of Quad/Graphics shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of iRobot shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Quad/Graphics beats iRobot on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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