ITRI vs. MWA, AEHR, FEIM, DAIO, COHR, CGNX, BMI, OSIS, DAKT, and MLAB
Should you be buying Itron stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Itron include Mueller Water Products (MWA), Aehr Test Systems (AEHR), Frequency Electronics (FEIM), Data I/O (DAIO), Coherent (COHR), Cognex (CGNX), Badger Meter (BMI), OSI Systems (OSIS), Daktronics (DAKT), and Mesa Laboratories (MLAB).
Itron (NASDAQ:ITRI) and Mueller Water Products (NYSE:MWA) 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 analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, media sentiment and community ranking.
Itron has a beta of 1.45, indicating that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mueller Water Products has a beta of 1.33, indicating that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Itron had 7 more articles in the media than Mueller Water Products. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Itron and 8 mentions for Mueller Water Products. Itron's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Mueller Water Products' score of 0.48 indicating that Itron is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Itron has higher revenue and earnings than Mueller Water Products. Itron is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mueller Water Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Mueller Water Products has a net margin of 8.10% compared to Itron's net margin of 7.03%. Mueller Water Products' return on equity of 16.97% beat Itron's return on equity.
Itron presently has a consensus price target of $112.09, suggesting a potential upside of 8.24%. Mueller Water Products has a consensus price target of $20.75, suggesting a potential upside of 0.27%. Given Itron's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Itron is more favorable than Mueller Water Products.
96.2% of Itron shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.7% of Mueller Water Products shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Itron shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Mueller Water Products shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Itron received 134 more outperform votes than Mueller Water Products when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.26% of users gave Mueller Water Products an outperform vote while only 64.41% of users gave Itron an outperform vote.
Summary
Itron beats Mueller Water Products on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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