ENS vs. ATKR, ESAB, OI, YOU, UNF, JBT, BDC, WIRE, ZWS, and TEX
Should you be buying EnerSys stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of EnerSys include Atkore (ATKR), ESAB (ESAB), O-I Glass (OI), Clear Secure (YOU), UniFirst (UNF), John Bean Technologies (JBT), Belden (BDC), Encore Wire (WIRE), Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (ZWS), and Terex (TEX). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
EnerSys vs.
Atkore (NYSE:ATKR) and EnerSys (NYSE:ENS) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
Atkore presently has a consensus target price of $161.40, indicating a potential upside of 18.68%. EnerSys has a consensus target price of $82.50, indicating a potential downside of 1.76%. Given Atkore's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Atkore is more favorable than EnerSys.
Atkore has higher revenue and earnings than EnerSys. Atkore is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than EnerSys, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Atkore has a beta of 2.22, meaning that its share price is 122% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EnerSys has a beta of 1.37, meaning that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Atkore and Atkore both had 3 articles in the media. Atkore's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat EnerSys' score of 0.62 indicating that Atkore is being referred to more favorably in the media.
95.7% of EnerSys shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of Atkore shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of EnerSys shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
EnerSys received 36 more outperform votes than Atkore when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.36% of users gave EnerSys an outperform vote while only 67.72% of users gave Atkore an outperform vote.
Atkore has a net margin of 22.58% compared to EnerSys' net margin of 3.81%. Atkore's return on equity of 76.09% beat EnerSys' return on equity.
Summary
Atkore beats EnerSys on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding ENS and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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.
