A vs. MTD, ILMN, WAT, AVTR, TER, RVTY, BRKR, AME, TTD, and DDOG
Should you be buying Agilent Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Agilent Technologies include Mettler-Toledo International (MTD), Illumina (ILMN), Waters (WAT), Avantor (AVTR), Teradyne (TER), Revvity (RVTY), Bruker (BRKR), AMETEK (AME), Trade Desk (TTD), and Datadog (DDOG).
Agilent Technologies (NYSE:A) and Mettler-Toledo International (NYSE:MTD) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and community ranking.
Agilent Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $141.29, suggesting a potential upside of 2.77%. Mettler-Toledo International has a consensus price target of $1,233.25, suggesting a potential downside of 0.17%. Given Agilent Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Agilent Technologies is more favorable than Mettler-Toledo International.
Agilent Technologies has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mettler-Toledo International has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Agilent Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Mettler-Toledo International. Agilent Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mettler-Toledo International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Agilent Technologies received 486 more outperform votes than Mettler-Toledo International when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.91% of users gave Agilent Technologies an outperform vote while only 57.50% of users gave Mettler-Toledo International an outperform vote.
Mettler-Toledo International has a net margin of 20.82% compared to Agilent Technologies' net margin of 18.35%. Agilent Technologies' return on equity of 27.09% beat Mettler-Toledo International's return on equity.
95.1% of Mettler-Toledo International shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of Mettler-Toledo International shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Agilent Technologies had 1 more articles in the media than Mettler-Toledo International. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Agilent Technologies and 7 mentions for Mettler-Toledo International. Agilent Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Mettler-Toledo International's score of 1.00 indicating that Agilent Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Agilent Technologies beats Mettler-Toledo International on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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