ABBNY vs. GEV, OTIS, RRX, CAE, BE, QS, NOVT, ATKR, RUN, and ENVX
Should you be buying ABB stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ABB include GE Vernova (GEV), Otis Worldwide (OTIS), Regal Rexnord (RRX), CAE (CAE), Bloom Energy (BE), QuantumScape (QS), Novanta (NOVT), Atkore (ATKR), Sunrun (RUN), and Enovix (ENVX). These companies are all part of the "electrical equipment" industry.
ABB vs. Its Competitors
GE Vernova (NYSE:GEV) and ABB (NYSE:ABBNY) are both large-cap electrical equipment companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
ABB has lower revenue, but higher earnings than GE Vernova. ABB is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GE Vernova, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ABB has a net margin of 11.98% compared to GE Vernova's net margin of 3.16%. ABB's return on equity of 27.54% beat GE Vernova's return on equity.
GE Vernova pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. ABB pays an annual dividend of $0.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. GE Vernova pays out 24.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ABB pays out 27.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
GE Vernova currently has a consensus target price of $560.21, indicating a potential downside of 13.67%. Given GE Vernova's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe GE Vernova is more favorable than ABB.
1.1% of ABB shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of GE Vernova shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.9% of ABB shares are owned by 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.
GE Vernova has a beta of 1.9, indicating that its share price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ABB has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, GE Vernova had 46 more articles in the media than ABB. MarketBeat recorded 48 mentions for GE Vernova and 2 mentions for ABB. GE Vernova's average media sentiment score of 1.53 beat ABB's score of 0.51 indicating that GE Vernova is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
GE Vernova beats ABB on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:ABBNY) was last updated on 8/8/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff