TS vs. AXON, DOV, HUBB, IEX, AVY, PKG, CNHI, NDSN, GGG, and ZBRA
Should you be buying Tenaris stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tenaris include Axon Enterprise (AXON), Dover (DOV), Hubbell (HUBB), IDEX (IEX), Avery Dennison (AVY), Packaging Co. of America (PKG), CNH Industrial (CNHI), Nordson (NDSN), Graco (GGG), and Zebra Technologies (ZBRA). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Axon Enterprise (NASDAQ:AXON) and Tenaris (NYSE:TS) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership and dividends.
Axon Enterprise received 20 more outperform votes than Tenaris when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.93% of users gave Axon Enterprise an outperform vote while only 61.88% of users gave Tenaris an outperform vote.
79.1% of Axon Enterprise shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.5% of Tenaris shares are held by institutional investors. 6.1% of Axon Enterprise shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Tenaris shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Tenaris has a net margin of 26.35% compared to Tenaris' net margin of 11.14%. Axon Enterprise's return on equity of 24.33% beat Tenaris' return on equity.
Tenaris has higher revenue and earnings than Axon Enterprise. Tenaris is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Axon Enterprise, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Axon Enterprise has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tenaris has a beta of 1.47, meaning that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Axon Enterprise had 11 more articles in the media than Tenaris. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Axon Enterprise and 4 mentions for Tenaris. Tenaris' average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Axon Enterprise's score of -0.27 indicating that Axon Enterprise is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Axon Enterprise currently has a consensus price target of $312.64, indicating a potential upside of 3.05%. Tenaris has a consensus price target of $41.93, indicating a potential upside of 12.18%. Given Axon Enterprise's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Tenaris is more favorable than Axon Enterprise.
Summary
Axon Enterprise beats Tenaris on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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