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ABB (ABBNY) Competitors

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$67.74 +0.72 (+1.07%)
As of 08/28/2025 03:59 PM Eastern

ABBNY vs. GEV, OTIS, BE, RRX, CAE, QS, NOVT, RUN, ENVX, and PLUG

Should you be buying ABB stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ABB include GE Vernova (GEV), Otis Worldwide (OTIS), Bloom Energy (BE), Regal Rexnord (RRX), CAE (CAE), QuantumScape (QS), Novanta (NOVT), Sunrun (RUN), Enovix (ENVX), and Plug Power (PLUG). 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 stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, valuation, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.

GE Vernova presently has a consensus target price of $560.21, indicating a potential downside of 11.68%. Given GE Vernova's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe GE Vernova is more favorable than ABB.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
GE Vernova
0 Sell rating(s)
9 Hold rating(s)
18 Buy rating(s)
4 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.84
ABB
2 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.29

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
GE Vernova3.16% 13.23% 2.60%
ABB 11.98%27.54%9.76%

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.

In the previous week, GE Vernova had 38 more articles in the media than ABB. MarketBeat recorded 43 mentions for GE Vernova and 5 mentions for ABB. GE Vernova's average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat ABB's score of 0.42 indicating that GE Vernova is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
GE Vernova
34 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
ABB
1 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
GE Vernova$36.62B4.72$1.55B$4.15152.84
ABB$32.85B3.80$3.94B$2.2729.84

1.1% of ABB shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of GE Vernova shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.9% of ABB 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.

GE Vernova has a beta of 1.9, suggesting that its stock price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ABB has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

GE Vernova beats ABB on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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ABBNY vs. The Competition

MetricABBSwitchgear & switchboard apparatus IndustryIndustrials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$124.91B$124.91B$7.71B$21.31B
Dividend Yield0.92%0.92%4.55%3.51%
P/E Ratio31.9531.9526.1329.34
Price / Sales3.803.8098.1552.82
Price / Cash22.7122.7128.6723.86
Price / Book8.378.374.135.39
Net Income$3.94B$3.94B$796.90M$996.59M
7 Day Performance0.19%0.19%0.11%0.45%
1 Month Performance2.89%2.89%0.53%3.51%
1 Year Performance18.80%18.80%27.56%12.13%

ABB Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ABBNY
ABB
N/A$67.74
+1.1%
N/A+19.1%$124.91B$32.85B31.95105,000News Coverage
GEV
GE Vernova
2.8903 of 5 stars
$624.51
+0.4%
$560.21
-10.3%
+244.7%$169.30B$34.94B150.4875,000Trending News
Insider Trade
OTIS
Otis Worldwide
4.9295 of 5 stars
$87.61
+0.2%
$102.50
+17.0%
-7.6%$34.31B$14.26B23.1872,000Positive News
BE
Bloom Energy
3.1205 of 5 stars
$46.57
+2.8%
$26.39
-43.3%
+384.5%$10.60B$1.47B1,164.542,127Positive News
Options Volume
Gap Up
RRX
Regal Rexnord
4.3338 of 5 stars
$146.72
+0.8%
$185.25
+26.3%
-6.7%$9.66B$6.03B39.0230,800Positive News
CAE
CAE
4.0969 of 5 stars
$27.82
+1.2%
$33.67
+21.0%
+53.8%$8.81B$3.28B30.2313,000
QS
QuantumScape
0.5765 of 5 stars
$8.78
-2.8%
$5.90
-32.8%
+42.7%$5.11BN/A-10.21850News Coverage
NOVT
Novanta
2.0003 of 5 stars
$120.23
+4.6%
$133.00
+10.6%
-34.5%$4.14B$949.24M70.723,000News Coverage
RUN
Sunrun
3.7099 of 5 stars
$15.50
+11.4%
$14.63
-5.6%
-20.5%$3.21B$2.04B-1.3411,058Insider Trade
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
ENVX
Enovix
2.9904 of 5 stars
$10.17
-0.4%
$18.90
+85.8%
+1.2%$2.01B$23.07M-12.11340News Coverage
PLUG
Plug Power
3.6517 of 5 stars
$1.66
-2.4%
$1.88
+13.3%
-16.0%$1.96B$672.84M-0.723,224

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This page (NYSE:ABBNY) was last updated on 8/29/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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