IRBT vs. IPAX, NC, EML, NNBR, SSTI, TAYD, TWIN, EOSE, LXFR, and HURC
Should you be buying iRobot stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of iRobot include Inflection Point Acquisition (IPAX), NACCO Industries (NC), Eastern (EML), NN (NNBR), SoundThinking (SSTI), Taylor Devices (TAYD), Twin Disc (TWIN), Eos Energy Enterprises (EOSE), Luxfer (LXFR), and Hurco Companies (HURC).
Inflection Point Acquisition (NASDAQ:IPAX) and iRobot (NASDAQ:IRBT) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
Inflection Point Acquisition has a beta of 0.01, suggesting that its stock price is 99% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, iRobot has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
94.7% of Inflection Point Acquisition shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.4% of iRobot shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of iRobot shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Inflection Point Acquisition has higher earnings, but lower revenue than iRobot.
iRobot received 558 more outperform votes than Inflection Point Acquisition when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Inflection Point Acquisition an outperform vote while only 65.27% of users gave iRobot an outperform vote.
iRobot has a consensus target price of $13.00, indicating a potential upside of 90.06%. Given Inflection Point Acquisition's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe iRobot is more favorable than Inflection Point Acquisition.
In the previous week, iRobot had 10 more articles in the media than Inflection Point Acquisition. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for iRobot and 0 mentions for Inflection Point Acquisition. Inflection Point Acquisition's average media sentiment score of 0.06 beat iRobot's score of 0.00 indicating that iRobot is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Inflection Point Acquisition has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Inflection Point Acquisition's net margin of -34.22%. iRobot's return on equity of -53.90% beat Inflection Point Acquisition's return on equity.
Summary
iRobot beats Inflection Point Acquisition on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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