FELE vs. RBC, AMSC, ENPH, GNRC, AYI, WIRE, ENS, BDC, BRC, and VICR
Should you be buying Franklin Electric stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Franklin Electric include RBC Bearings (RBC), American Superconductor (AMSC), Enphase Energy (ENPH), Generac (GNRC), Acuity Brands (AYI), Encore Wire (WIRE), EnerSys (ENS), Belden (BDC), Brady (BRC), and Vicor (VICR).
RBC Bearings (NYSE:RBC) and Franklin Electric (NASDAQ:FELE) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.
In the previous week, Franklin Electric had 25 more articles in the media than RBC Bearings. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Franklin Electric and 7 mentions for RBC Bearings. Franklin Electric's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat RBC Bearings' score of 0.21 indicating that RBC Bearings is being referred to more favorably in the media.
RBC Bearings has a net margin of 13.45% compared to RBC Bearings' net margin of 9.35%. RBC Bearings' return on equity of 15.57% beat Franklin Electric's return on equity.
RBC Bearings has a beta of 1.51, meaning that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Franklin Electric has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
RBC Bearings currently has a consensus target price of $284.71, suggesting a potential downside of 2.54%. Franklin Electric has a consensus target price of $100.00, suggesting a potential downside of 5.86%. Given Franklin Electric's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe RBC Bearings is more favorable than Franklin Electric.
Franklin Electric received 56 more outperform votes than RBC Bearings when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.53% of users gave Franklin Electric an outperform vote while only 55.30% of users gave RBC Bearings an outperform vote.
80.0% of Franklin Electric shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.9% of RBC Bearings shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Franklin Electric shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
RBC Bearings has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Franklin Electric. Franklin Electric is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RBC Bearings, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
RBC Bearings beats Franklin Electric on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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