IRBT vs. NNBR, EML, TAYD, NC, SSTI, IPAX, TWIN, PESI, VTNR, and EOSE
Should you be buying iRobot stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of iRobot include NN (NNBR), Eastern (EML), Taylor Devices (TAYD), NACCO Industries (NC), SoundThinking (SSTI), Inflection Point Acquisition (IPAX), Twin Disc (TWIN), Perma-Fix Environmental Services (PESI), Vertex Energy (VTNR), and Eos Energy Enterprises (EOSE).
iRobot (NASDAQ:IRBT) and NN (NASDAQ:NNBR) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
iRobot has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NN has a beta of 3.02, suggesting that its share price is 202% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, iRobot had 11 more articles in the media than NN. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for iRobot and 3 mentions for NN. NN's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat iRobot's score of 0.07 indicating that NN is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
iRobot received 235 more outperform votes than NN when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.27% of users gave iRobot an outperform vote while only 51.67% of users gave NN an outperform vote.
iRobot presently has a consensus target price of $13.00, indicating a potential upside of 66.99%. NN has a consensus target price of $5.00, indicating a potential upside of 34.41%. Given iRobot's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe iRobot is more favorable than NN.
NN has lower revenue, but higher earnings than iRobot. NN is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than iRobot, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NN has a net margin of -10.25% compared to iRobot's net margin of -34.22%. NN's return on equity of -9.19% beat iRobot's return on equity.
77.4% of iRobot shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.9% of NN shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of iRobot shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.9% of NN shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
NN beats iRobot on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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