ZBRA vs. ZWS, SWK, GGG, NDSN, LECO, PNR, CNHI, PKG, AOS, and AVY
Should you be buying Zebra Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Zebra Technologies include Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (ZWS), Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), Graco (GGG), Nordson (NDSN), Lincoln Electric (LECO), Pentair (PNR), CNH Industrial (CNHI), Packaging Co. of America (PKG), A. O. Smith (AOS), and Avery Dennison (AVY). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Zebra Technologies (NASDAQ:ZBRA) and Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (NYSE:ZWS) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings and risk.
Zebra Technologies received 464 more outperform votes than Zurn Elkay Water Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.07% of users gave Zebra Technologies an outperform vote while only 40.38% of users gave Zurn Elkay Water Solutions an outperform vote.
Zebra Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Zurn Elkay Water Solutions. Zurn Elkay Water Solutions 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 has a beta of 1.79, meaning that its stock price is 79% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zurn Elkay Water Solutions has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Zebra Technologies presently has a consensus target price of $278.64, suggesting a potential downside of 0.93%. Zurn Elkay Water Solutions has a consensus target price of $32.75, suggesting a potential upside of 4.50%. Given Zurn Elkay Water Solutions' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Zurn Elkay Water Solutions is more favorable than Zebra Technologies.
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions has a net margin of 8.11% compared to Zebra Technologies' net margin of 6.46%. Zebra Technologies' return on equity of 15.30% beat Zurn Elkay Water Solutions' return on equity.
91.0% of Zebra Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.3% of Zurn Elkay Water Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Zebra Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of Zurn Elkay Water Solutions shares are held by 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.
In the previous week, Zurn Elkay Water Solutions had 21 more articles in the media than Zebra Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Zurn Elkay Water Solutions and 5 mentions for Zebra Technologies. Zebra Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Zurn Elkay Water Solutions' score of 0.78 indicating that Zebra Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Zebra Technologies beats Zurn Elkay Water Solutions on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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