LXFR vs. IRBT, GHM, QUAD, IPAX, TWIN, PKOH, IPX, DM, NWPX, and SSTI
Should you be buying Luxfer stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Luxfer include iRobot (IRBT), Graham (GHM), Quad/Graphics (QUAD), Inflection Point Acquisition (IPAX), Twin Disc (TWIN), Park-Ohio (PKOH), IperionX (IPX), Desktop Metal (DM), Northwest Pipe (NWPX), and SoundThinking (SSTI). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Luxfer (NYSE:LXFR) and iRobot (NASDAQ:IRBT) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations and valuation.
iRobot has a consensus target price of $13.00, suggesting a potential upside of 41.15%. Given iRobot's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe iRobot is more favorable than Luxfer.
In the previous week, iRobot had 27 more articles in the media than Luxfer. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for iRobot and 1 mentions for Luxfer. Luxfer's average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat iRobot's score of 0.06 indicating that Luxfer is being referred to more favorably in the media.
95.0% of Luxfer shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.4% of iRobot shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Luxfer shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of iRobot shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
iRobot received 275 more outperform votes than Luxfer when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.13% of users gave Luxfer an outperform vote while only 65.27% of users gave iRobot an outperform vote.
Luxfer has higher earnings, but lower revenue than iRobot. Luxfer is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than iRobot, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Luxfer has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, iRobot has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Luxfer has a net margin of -0.47% compared to iRobot's net margin of -34.22%. Luxfer's return on equity of 6.63% beat iRobot's return on equity.
Summary
Luxfer beats iRobot on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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