ATS vs. ESAB, ALRM, CSTM, HI, BDC, KAI, UNF, YOU, GEF, and JBT
Should you be buying ATS stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ATS include ESAB (ESAB), Alarm.com (ALRM), Constellium (CSTM), Hillenbrand (HI), Belden (BDC), Kadant (KAI), UniFirst (UNF), Clear Secure (YOU), Greif (GEF), and John Bean Technologies (JBT). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
ATS (NYSE:ATS) and ESAB (NYSE:ESAB) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation and earnings.
ESAB has a net margin of 7.40% compared to ATS's net margin of 5.89%. ESAB's return on equity of 17.57% beat ATS's return on equity.
75.8% of ATS shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.1% of ESAB shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.2% of ESAB 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, ESAB had 2 more articles in the media than ATS. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for ESAB and 4 mentions for ATS. ESAB's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat ATS's score of 0.19 indicating that ESAB is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ATS presently has a consensus target price of $48.00, suggesting a potential upside of 43.97%. ESAB has a consensus target price of $93.75, suggesting a potential downside of 12.71%. Given ATS's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe ATS is more favorable than ESAB.
ESAB has higher revenue and earnings than ATS. ATS is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ESAB, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ESAB received 10 more outperform votes than ATS when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 37.50% of users gave ESAB an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave ATS an outperform vote.
Summary
ESAB beats ATS on 16 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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