ZWS vs. ZBRA, CWST, ATKR, SON, SEE, MSM, SLGN, VMI, TKR, and ADT
Should you be buying Zurn Elkay Water Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Zurn Elkay Water Solutions include Zebra Technologies (ZBRA), Casella Waste Systems (CWST), Atkore (ATKR), Sonoco Products (SON), Sealed Air (SEE), MSC Industrial Direct (MSM), Silgan (SLGN), Valmont Industries (VMI), Timken (TKR), and ADT (ADT). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (NYSE:ZWS) and Zebra Technologies (NASDAQ:ZBRA) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership and valuation.
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions has a net margin of 8.11% compared to Zebra Technologies' net margin of 5.99%. Zebra Technologies' return on equity of 13.05% beat Zurn Elkay Water Solutions' return on equity.
83.3% of Zurn Elkay Water Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.0% of Zebra Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of Zurn Elkay Water Solutions shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Zebra Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions has a beta of 1.21, meaning that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zebra Technologies has a beta of 1.76, meaning 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.
In the previous week, Zebra Technologies had 9 more articles in the media than Zurn Elkay Water Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Zebra Technologies and 4 mentions for Zurn Elkay Water Solutions. Zebra Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Zurn Elkay Water Solutions' score of 0.93 indicating that Zebra Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news 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 currently has a consensus price target of $33.50, indicating a potential upside of 2.10%. Zebra Technologies has a consensus price target of $310.64, indicating a potential downside of 4.09%. Given Zurn Elkay Water Solutions' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Zurn Elkay Water Solutions is more favorable than Zebra Technologies.
Summary
Zebra Technologies beats Zurn Elkay Water Solutions on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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