CLS vs. KXS, DSG, NVEI, LSPD, BB, DCBO, OTEX, HPS.A, ENGH, and TIXT
Should you be buying Celestica stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Celestica include Kinaxis (KXS), The Descartes Systems Group (DSG), Nuvei (NVEI), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), BlackBerry (BB), Docebo (DCBO), Open Text (OTEX), Hammond Power Solutions (HPS.A), Enghouse Systems (ENGH), and TELUS International (Cda) (TIXT). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Kinaxis (TSE:KXS) and Celestica (TSE:CLS) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and community ranking.
Kinaxis currently has a consensus target price of C$199.44, indicating a potential upside of 30.79%. Celestica has a consensus target price of C$38.33, indicating a potential downside of 35.94%. Given Celestica's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Kinaxis is more favorable than Celestica.
48.1% of Kinaxis shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.4% of Celestica shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Kinaxis shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Celestica shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Kinaxis has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Celestica has a beta of 2.35, suggesting that its share price is 135% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Celestica had 9 more articles in the media than Kinaxis. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Celestica and 1 mentions for Kinaxis. Kinaxis' average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Celestica's score of 0.00 indicating that Celestica is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Celestica has a net margin of 3.07% compared to Celestica's net margin of 2.36%. Kinaxis' return on equity of 14.19% beat Celestica's return on equity.
Celestica has higher revenue and earnings than Kinaxis. Celestica is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kinaxis, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Kinaxis received 258 more outperform votes than Celestica when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.31% of users gave Kinaxis an outperform vote while only 56.20% of users gave Celestica an outperform vote.
Summary
Celestica beats Kinaxis on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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