Flowco (FLOC) Competitors

ESAB (NYSE:ESAB) and Flowco (NYSE:FLOC) are both industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, profitability and media sentiment.

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in ESAB or FLOC?

91.1% of ESAB shares are held by institutional investors. 7.3% of ESAB shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Is ESAB or FLOC more profitable?

ESAB has a net margin of 9.66% compared to Flowco's net margin of 0.00%. ESAB's return on equity of 17.43% beat Flowco's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
ESAB	9.66%	17.43%	7.80%
Flowco	N/A	N/A	N/A

Do analysts recommend ESAB or FLOC?

ESAB presently has a consensus price target of $133.75, suggesting a potential upside of 10.03%. Flowco has a consensus price target of $33.80, suggesting a potential upside of 61.11%. Given Flowco's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Flowco is more favorable than ESAB.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
ESAB	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.71
Flowco	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	2 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.29

Does the MarketBeat Community favor ESAB or FLOC?

ESAB received 17 more outperform votes than Flowco when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Flowco an outperform vote while only 45.28% of users gave ESAB an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
ESAB	Outperform Votes 24 45.28%	Underperform Votes 29 54.72%
Flowco	Outperform Votes 7 100.00%	Underperform Votes No Votes

Which has stronger earnings & valuation, ESAB or FLOC?

ESAB has higher revenue and earnings than Flowco. Flowco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ESAB, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
ESAB	$2.74B	2.69	$205.29M	$4.32	28.14
Flowco	$535.28M	3.55	$166.60M	$1.84	11.40

Does the media refer more to ESAB or FLOC?

In the previous week, ESAB had 16 more articles in the media than Flowco. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for ESAB and 6 mentions for Flowco. ESAB's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Flowco's score of 0.28 indicating that ESAB is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
ESAB	11 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	6 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Flowco	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Summary

ESAB beats Flowco on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.