COHR vs. CGNX, ITRI, BMI, OSIS, DAKT, VPG, MLAB, SYM, FUTU, and J
Should you be buying Coherent stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Coherent include Cognex (CGNX), Itron (ITRI), Badger Meter (BMI), OSI Systems (OSIS), Daktronics (DAKT), Vishay Precision Group (VPG), Mesa Laboratories (MLAB), Symbotic (SYM), Futu (FUTU), and Jacobs Solutions (J).
Coherent vs. Its Competitors
Coherent (NYSE:COHR) and Cognex (NASDAQ:CGNX) are both electronic equipment & instruments companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and profitability.
Coherent currently has a consensus price target of $110.07, suggesting a potential downside of 4.20%. Cognex has a consensus price target of $43.07, suggesting a potential downside of 8.10%. Given Coherent's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Coherent is more favorable than Cognex.
Cognex has a net margin of 13.13% compared to Coherent's net margin of 0.85%. Coherent's return on equity of 9.74% beat Cognex's return on equity.
Coherent has a beta of 2.03, meaning that its stock price is 103% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cognex has a beta of 1.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Coherent had 2 more articles in the media than Cognex. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Coherent and 4 mentions for Cognex. Cognex's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Coherent's score of 0.47 indicating that Cognex is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
83.3% of Coherent shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.1% of Cognex shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Coherent shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Cognex shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Cognex has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Coherent. Coherent is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cognex, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Cognex beats Coherent on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE 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.
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This page (NYSE:COHR) was last updated on 10/6/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
