VNT vs. KEYS, AVTR, BIO.B, ST, OLK, MIR, TRNS, LAB, CTKB, and QTRX
Should you be buying Vontier stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vontier include Keysight Technologies (KEYS), Avantor (AVTR), Bio-Rad Laboratories (BIO.B), Sensata Technologies (ST), Olink Holding AB (publ) (OLK), Mirion Technologies (MIR), Transcat (TRNS), Standard BioTools (LAB), Cytek Biosciences (CTKB), and Quanterix (QTRX). These companies are all part of the "measuring and control equipment" industry.
Vontier (NYSE:VNT) and Keysight Technologies (NYSE:KEYS) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, risk and dividends.
Keysight Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Vontier. Vontier is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Keysight Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Vontier currently has a consensus price target of $45.00, indicating a potential upside of 14.36%. Keysight Technologies has a consensus price target of $167.20, indicating a potential upside of 20.54%. Given Keysight Technologies' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Keysight Technologies is more favorable than Vontier.
Vontier has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Keysight Technologies has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Keysight Technologies has a net margin of 15.70% compared to Vontier's net margin of 14.02%. Vontier's return on equity of 54.84% beat Keysight Technologies' return on equity.
95.8% of Vontier shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.6% of Keysight Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Vontier shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Keysight Technologies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Keysight Technologies had 12 more articles in the media than Vontier. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Keysight Technologies and 11 mentions for Vontier. Vontier's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Keysight Technologies' score of 0.45 indicating that Vontier is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Keysight Technologies received 425 more outperform votes than Vontier when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.90% of users gave Keysight Technologies an outperform vote while only 47.95% of users gave Vontier an outperform vote.
Summary
Keysight Technologies beats Vontier on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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