PLUG vs. GTLS, MSA, MSM, ADT, AIT, ATKR, SEE, TKR, SLGN, and VMI
Should you be buying Plug Power stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Plug Power include Chart Industries (GTLS), MSA Safety (MSA), MSC Industrial Direct (MSM), ADT (ADT), Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT), Atkore (ATKR), Sealed Air (SEE), Timken (TKR), Silgan (SLGN), and Valmont Industries (VMI). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Plug Power vs.
Chart Industries (NYSE:GTLS) and Plug Power (NASDAQ:PLUG) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends and institutional ownership.
Chart Industries has a net margin of -0.14% compared to Plug Power's net margin of -100.41%. Chart Industries' return on equity of 9.07% beat Plug Power's return on equity.
Chart Industries currently has a consensus price target of $192.31, suggesting a potential upside of 46.32%. Plug Power has a consensus price target of $20.34, suggesting a potential upside of 121.82%. Given Plug Power's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Plug Power is more favorable than Chart Industries.
In the previous week, Plug Power had 19 more articles in the media than Chart Industries. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Plug Power and 8 mentions for Chart Industries. Plug Power's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Chart Industries' score of 0.67 indicating that Plug Power is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
52.1% of Plug Power shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Chart Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Plug Power shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Plug Power received 262 more outperform votes than Chart Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.06% of users gave Plug Power an outperform vote while only 63.43% of users gave Chart Industries an outperform vote.
Chart Industries has a beta of 1.46, meaning that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Plug Power has a beta of 1.76, meaning that its share price is 76% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Chart Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Plug Power. Chart Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Plug Power, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Plug Power beats Chart Industries on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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