SYM vs. BR, RKT, APP, VLTO, FLT, CPAY, APTV, BAH, J, and OMC
Should you be buying Symbotic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Symbotic include Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), Rocket Companies (RKT), AppLovin (APP), Veralto (VLTO), FLEETCOR Technologies (FLT), Corpay (CPAY), Aptiv (APTV), Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), Jacobs Solutions (J), and Omnicom Group (OMC). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Symbotic (NASDAQ:SYM) and Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE:BR) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and media sentiment.
90.0% of Broadridge Financial Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. 38.3% of Symbotic shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Broadridge Financial Solutions shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Symbotic presently has a consensus target price of $54.00, indicating a potential upside of 36.16%. Broadridge Financial Solutions has a consensus target price of $206.67, indicating a potential upside of 6.40%. Given Symbotic's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Symbotic is more favorable than Broadridge Financial Solutions.
Broadridge Financial Solutions received 356 more outperform votes than Symbotic when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 50.00% of users gave Broadridge Financial Solutions an outperform vote while only 44.59% of users gave Symbotic an outperform vote.
Broadridge Financial Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than Symbotic. Symbotic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Broadridge Financial Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Broadridge Financial Solutions has a net margin of 10.82% compared to Symbotic's net margin of -1.39%. Broadridge Financial Solutions' return on equity of 41.12% beat Symbotic's return on equity.
In the previous week, Symbotic had 4 more articles in the media than Broadridge Financial Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Symbotic and 9 mentions for Broadridge Financial Solutions. Broadridge Financial Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat Symbotic's score of 0.71 indicating that Broadridge Financial Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Symbotic has a beta of 1.91, suggesting that its share price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Broadridge Financial Solutions has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Broadridge Financial Solutions beats Symbotic on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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