ZBRA vs. IR, RS, AXON, AVY, AMCR, IEX, BALL, HUBB, TS, and XYL
Should you be buying Zebra Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Zebra Technologies include Ingersoll Rand (IR), Reliance Steel & Aluminum (RS), Axon Enterprise (AXON), Avery Dennison (AVY), Amcor (AMCR), IDEX (IEX), Ball (BALL), Hubbell (HUBB), Tenaris (TS), and Xylem (XYL). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Zebra Technologies vs.
Ingersoll Rand (NYSE:IR) and Zebra Technologies (NASDAQ:ZBRA) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, valuation, earnings and dividends.
Ingersoll Rand has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zebra Technologies has a beta of 1.66, indicating that its share price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Ingersoll Rand had 4 more articles in the media than Zebra Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Ingersoll Rand and 9 mentions for Zebra Technologies. Zebra Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Ingersoll Rand's score of 0.35 indicating that Zebra Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ingersoll Rand presently has a consensus target price of $58.50, suggesting a potential upside of 3.63%. Zebra Technologies has a consensus target price of $373.71, suggesting a potential upside of 27.79%. Given Zebra Technologies' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Zebra Technologies is more favorable than Ingersoll Rand.
Ingersoll Rand received 214 more outperform votes than Zebra Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.93% of users gave Zebra Technologies an outperform vote while only 62.16% of users gave Ingersoll Rand an outperform vote.
99.7% of Ingersoll Rand shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.2% of Zebra Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Ingersoll Rand shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Zebra Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Ingersoll Rand has higher revenue and earnings than Zebra Technologies. Zebra Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ingersoll Rand, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ingersoll Rand has a net margin of 10.22% compared to Zebra Technologies' net margin of 8.01%. Zebra Technologies' return on equity of 31.19% beat Ingersoll Rand's return on equity.
Summary
Ingersoll Rand beats Zebra Technologies on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding ZBRA and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Zebra Technologies Competitors List
