AXON vs. AMCR, ZBRA, IEX, BALL, RS, AVY, TS, XYL, HUBB, and SWK
Should you be buying Axon Enterprise stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Axon Enterprise include Amcor (AMCR), Zebra Technologies (ZBRA), IDEX (IEX), Ball (BALL), Reliance Steel & Aluminum (RS), Avery Dennison (AVY), Tenaris (TS), Xylem (XYL), Hubbell (HUBB), and Stanley Black & Decker (SWK). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Axon Enterprise vs.
Axon Enterprise (NASDAQ:AXON) and Amcor (NYSE:AMCR) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
Axon Enterprise presently has a consensus target price of $221.64, indicating a potential upside of 3.83%. Amcor has a consensus target price of $12.00, indicating a potential upside of 10.19%. Given Amcor's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Amcor is more favorable than Axon Enterprise.
Amcor has higher revenue and earnings than Axon Enterprise. Amcor is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Axon Enterprise, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Axon Enterprise has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amcor has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Axon Enterprise has a net margin of 12.36% compared to Amcor's net margin of 7.14%. Amcor's return on equity of 28.65% beat Axon Enterprise's return on equity.
In the previous week, Amcor had 1 more articles in the media than Axon Enterprise. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Amcor and 3 mentions for Axon Enterprise. Axon Enterprise's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Amcor's score of 0.51 indicating that Axon Enterprise is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Axon Enterprise received 346 more outperform votes than Amcor when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.20% of users gave Axon Enterprise an outperform vote while only 53.98% of users gave Amcor an outperform vote.
75.6% of Axon Enterprise shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.8% of Amcor shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.9% of Axon Enterprise shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Amcor shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Axon Enterprise beats Amcor on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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