ESAB vs. SYM, NDSN, RRX, ATS, OUST, HSAI, KITT, TAYD, RR, and PDYN
Should you be buying ESAB stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ESAB include Symbotic (SYM), Nordson (NDSN), Regal Rexnord (RRX), ATS (ATS), Ouster (OUST), Hesai Group (HSAI), Nauticus Robotics (KITT), Taylor Devices (TAYD), Richtech Robotics (RR), and Palladyne AI (PDYN). These companies are all part of the "general industrial machinery," industry.
ESAB (NYSE:ESAB) and Symbotic (NASDAQ:SYM) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.
ESAB currently has a consensus price target of $99.38, suggesting a potential downside of 0.44%. Symbotic has a consensus price target of $52.50, suggesting a potential upside of 35.31%. Given Symbotic's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Symbotic is more favorable than ESAB.
ESAB has a net margin of 8.39% compared to Symbotic's net margin of -1.27%. ESAB's return on equity of 17.59% beat Symbotic's return on equity.
ESAB has higher revenue and earnings than Symbotic. Symbotic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ESAB, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ESAB has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Symbotic has a beta of 1.87, indicating that its stock price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Symbotic had 12 more articles in the media than ESAB. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Symbotic and 8 mentions for ESAB. ESAB's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Symbotic's score of 0.65 indicating that ESAB is being referred to more favorably in the media.
91.1% of ESAB shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.0% of ESAB shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 38.3% of Symbotic shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Symbotic received 23 more outperform votes than ESAB when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 45.12% of users gave Symbotic an outperform vote while only 41.18% of users gave ESAB an outperform vote.
Summary
ESAB and Symbotic tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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