NVT vs. FLEX, JKHY, JNPR, LOGI, AZPN, BRKR, ALAB, TWLO, PAYC, and PATH
Should you be buying nVent Electric stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of nVent Electric include Flex (FLEX), Jack Henry & Associates (JKHY), Juniper Networks (JNPR), Logitech International (LOGI), Aspen Technology (AZPN), Bruker (BRKR), Astera Labs (ALAB), Twilio (TWLO), Paycom Software (PAYC), and UiPath (PATH). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Flex (NASDAQ:FLEX) and nVent Electric (NYSE:NVT) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability and risk.
94.3% of Flex shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.1% of nVent Electric shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Flex shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of nVent Electric shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Flex presently has a consensus price target of $34.20, indicating a potential upside of 18.59%. nVent Electric has a consensus price target of $81.60, indicating a potential upside of 8.34%. Given nVent Electric's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Flex is more favorable than nVent Electric.
Flex has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, nVent Electric has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Flex had 7 more articles in the media than nVent Electric. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Flex and 11 mentions for nVent Electric. Flex's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat nVent Electric's score of 0.37 indicating that nVent Electric is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Flex received 361 more outperform votes than nVent Electric when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.77% of users gave nVent Electric an outperform vote while only 62.19% of users gave Flex an outperform vote.
Flex has higher revenue and earnings than nVent Electric. Flex is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than nVent Electric, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
nVent Electric has a net margin of 17.38% compared to nVent Electric's net margin of 2.56%. Flex's return on equity of 17.53% beat nVent Electric's return on equity.
Summary
nVent Electric beats Flex on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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