UNF vs. ATS, GEF, JBT, REZI, YOU, CSTM, BRC, AIN, ATMU, and ALRM
Should you be buying UniFirst stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of UniFirst include ATS (ATS), Greif (GEF), John Bean Technologies (JBT), Resideo Technologies (REZI), Clear Secure (YOU), Constellium (CSTM), Brady (BRC), Albany International (AIN), Atmus Filtration Technologies (ATMU), and Alarm.com (ALRM). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
ATS (NYSE:ATS) and UniFirst (NYSE:UNF) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability and risk.
In the previous week, ATS had 2 more articles in the media than UniFirst. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for ATS and 6 mentions for UniFirst. ATS's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat UniFirst's score of 0.05 indicating that UniFirst is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
UniFirst received 228 more outperform votes than ATS when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.12% of users gave UniFirst an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave ATS an outperform vote.
75.8% of ATS shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.2% of UniFirst shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of UniFirst shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
UniFirst has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ATS. ATS is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than UniFirst, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ATS has a net margin of 5.89% compared to ATS's net margin of 4.92%. UniFirst's return on equity of 17.56% beat ATS's return on equity.
ATS presently has a consensus price target of $48.00, indicating a potential upside of 45.32%. UniFirst has a consensus price target of $177.75, indicating a potential upside of 8.23%. Given UniFirst's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe ATS is more favorable than UniFirst.
Summary
UniFirst beats ATS on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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