VLTO vs. BR, KSPI, APTV, SYM, RKT, APP, GPN, STX, CPAY, and BAH
Should you be buying Veralto stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Veralto include Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz (KSPI), Aptiv (APTV), Symbotic (SYM), Rocket Companies (RKT), AppLovin (APP), Global Payments (GPN), Seagate Technology (STX), Corpay (CPAY), and Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE:BR) and Veralto (NYSE:VLTO) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
Broadridge Financial Solutions presently has a consensus target price of $206.67, indicating a potential upside of 3.63%. Veralto has a consensus target price of $95.18, indicating a potential downside of 4.02%. Given Veralto's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Broadridge Financial Solutions is more favorable than Veralto.
Veralto has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Broadridge Financial Solutions.
In the previous week, Broadridge Financial Solutions had 2 more articles in the media than Veralto. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Broadridge Financial Solutions and 9 mentions for Veralto. Broadridge Financial Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat Veralto's score of 0.89 indicating that Veralto is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
90.0% of Broadridge Financial Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.3% of Veralto shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Broadridge Financial Solutions shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Veralto shares are held 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.
Broadridge Financial Solutions received 379 more outperform votes than Veralto when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.11% of users gave Veralto an outperform vote while only 49.94% of users gave Broadridge Financial Solutions an outperform vote.
Broadridge Financial Solutions has a net margin of 10.92% compared to Broadridge Financial Solutions' net margin of 0.00%. Veralto's return on equity of 40.88% beat Broadridge Financial Solutions' return on equity.
Broadridge Financial Solutions pays an annual dividend of $3.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Veralto pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Broadridge Financial Solutions pays out 54.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Broadridge Financial Solutions has increased its dividend for 17 consecutive years. Broadridge Financial Solutions is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Broadridge Financial Solutions and Veralto tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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