LZ vs. ALG, KMT, MWA, AMBP, HLIO, REZI, ATMU, B, SXI, and CSTM
Should you be buying LegalZoom.com stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LegalZoom.com include Alamo Group (ALG), Kennametal (KMT), Mueller Water Products (MWA), Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMBP), Helios Technologies (HLIO), Resideo Technologies (REZI), Atmus Filtration Technologies (ATMU), Barnes Group (B), Standex International (SXI), and Constellium (CSTM). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Alamo Group (NYSE:ALG) and LegalZoom.com (NASDAQ:LZ) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Alamo Group has higher revenue and earnings than LegalZoom.com. LegalZoom.com is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alamo Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alamo Group has a net margin of 7.76% compared to Alamo Group's net margin of -1.47%. LegalZoom.com's return on equity of 15.54% beat Alamo Group's return on equity.
91.2% of Alamo Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.0% of LegalZoom.com shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Alamo Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 44.6% of LegalZoom.com 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.
Alamo Group received 274 more outperform votes than LegalZoom.com when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.01% of users gave Alamo Group an outperform vote while only 30.16% of users gave LegalZoom.com an outperform vote.
Alamo Group has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LegalZoom.com has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Alamo Group had 2 more articles in the media than LegalZoom.com. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Alamo Group and 2 mentions for LegalZoom.com. Alamo Group's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat LegalZoom.com's score of 0.20 indicating that LegalZoom.com is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Alamo Group presently has a consensus price target of $204.50, indicating a potential upside of 19.08%. LegalZoom.com has a consensus price target of $14.86, indicating a potential upside of 42.31%. Given Alamo Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe LegalZoom.com is more favorable than Alamo Group.
Summary
Alamo Group beats LegalZoom.com on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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