ITRI vs. AVT, VERX, WK, FIVN, DJT, NVEI, BLKB, CVLT, SATS, and CRUS
Should you be buying Itron stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Itron include Avnet (AVT), Vertex (VERX), Workiva (WK), Five9 (FIVN), Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT), Nuvei (NVEI), Blackbaud (BLKB), Commvault Systems (CVLT), EchoStar (SATS), and Cirrus Logic (CRUS). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Itron (NASDAQ:ITRI) and Avnet (NASDAQ:AVT) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.
96.2% of Itron shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.8% of Avnet shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Itron shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Avnet shares are held 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.
Avnet has higher revenue and earnings than Itron. Avnet is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Itron, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Itron presently has a consensus price target of $97.60, indicating a potential upside of 3.37%. Avnet has a consensus price target of $45.50, indicating a potential downside of 7.60%. Given Itron's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Itron is more favorable than Avnet.
Itron has a beta of 1.41, indicating that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Avnet has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Itron had 2 more articles in the media than Avnet. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Itron and 5 mentions for Avnet. Itron's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Avnet's score of 0.59 indicating that Itron is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Itron received 552 more outperform votes than Avnet when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.26% of users gave Itron an outperform vote while only 23.08% of users gave Avnet an outperform vote.
Itron has a net margin of 4.46% compared to Avnet's net margin of 2.62%. Avnet's return on equity of 13.60% beat Itron's return on equity.
Summary
Itron beats Avnet on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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