LECO vs. ZBRA, SWK, PNR, AMCR, AOS, CNHI, NDSN, GGG, PKG, and ALLE
Should you be buying Lincoln Electric stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lincoln Electric include Zebra Technologies (ZBRA), Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), Pentair (PNR), Amcor (AMCR), A. O. Smith (AOS), CNH Industrial (CNHI), Nordson (NDSN), Graco (GGG), Packaging Co. of America (PKG), and Allegion (ALLE). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Lincoln Electric (NASDAQ:LECO) and Zebra Technologies (NASDAQ:ZBRA) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends and valuation.
In the previous week, Lincoln Electric had 17 more articles in the media than Zebra Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Lincoln Electric and 6 mentions for Zebra Technologies. Zebra Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Lincoln Electric's score of 0.80 indicating that Zebra Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
79.6% of Lincoln Electric shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.0% of Zebra Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of Lincoln Electric shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Zebra Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Lincoln Electric has a beta of 1.2, meaning that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zebra Technologies has a beta of 1.79, meaning that its stock price is 79% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lincoln Electric presently has a consensus price target of $217.00, suggesting a potential downside of 4.23%. Zebra Technologies has a consensus price target of $278.64, suggesting a potential downside of 6.09%. Given Lincoln Electric's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Lincoln Electric is more favorable than Zebra Technologies.
Lincoln Electric has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Zebra Technologies. Lincoln Electric is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Zebra Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Zebra Technologies received 47 more outperform votes than Lincoln Electric when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.07% of users gave Zebra Technologies an outperform vote while only 59.59% of users gave Lincoln Electric an outperform vote.
Lincoln Electric has a net margin of 13.01% compared to Zebra Technologies' net margin of 6.46%. Lincoln Electric's return on equity of 45.09% beat Zebra Technologies' return on equity.
Summary
Zebra Technologies beats Lincoln Electric on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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