ATS vs. SIS, BBD.B, SES, FTT, RUS, EIF, BBU.UN, CJT, MDA, and AC
Should you be buying ATS stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ATS include Savaria (SIS), Bombardier, Inc. Class B (BBD.B), Secure Energy Services (SES), Finning International (FTT), Russel Metals (RUS), Exchange Income (EIF), Brookfield Business Partners (BBU.UN), Cargojet (CJT), MDA (MDA), and Air Canada (AC). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
ATS (TSE:ATS) and Savaria (TSE:SIS) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
ATS has a beta of 1.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Savaria has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
ATS has a net margin of 5.88% compared to Savaria's net margin of 4.52%. ATS's return on equity of 12.98% beat Savaria's return on equity.
In the previous week, ATS had 15 more articles in the media than Savaria. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for ATS and 4 mentions for Savaria. Savaria's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat ATS's score of 0.04 indicating that Savaria is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
93.7% of ATS shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.0% of Savaria shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of ATS shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.9% of Savaria shares are owned by company 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.
Savaria received 262 more outperform votes than ATS when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 77.78% of users gave ATS an outperform vote while only 69.70% of users gave Savaria an outperform vote.
ATS has higher revenue and earnings than Savaria. ATS is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Savaria, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ATS currently has a consensus price target of C$65.43, indicating a potential upside of 45.07%. Savaria has a consensus price target of C$21.64, indicating a potential upside of 30.77%. Given ATS's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe ATS is more favorable than Savaria.
Summary
ATS beats Savaria on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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