LZ vs. ALG, AZZ, AMBP, ATMU, OI, EPAC, TNC, SXI, KMT, and UFPT
Should you be buying LegalZoom.com stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LegalZoom.com include Alamo Group (ALG), AZZ (AZZ), Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMBP), Atmus Filtration Technologies (ATMU), O-I Glass (OI), Enerpac Tool Group (EPAC), Tennant (TNC), Standex International (SXI), Kennametal (KMT), and UFP Technologies (UFPT). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Alamo Group (NYSE:ALG) and LegalZoom.com (NASDAQ:LZ) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.
In the previous week, LegalZoom.com had 1 more articles in the media than Alamo Group. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for LegalZoom.com and 26 mentions for Alamo Group. LegalZoom.com's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Alamo Group's score of 0.03 indicating that Alamo Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
92.4% of Alamo Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.0% of LegalZoom.com shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Alamo Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.5% of LegalZoom.com shares are owned by company 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.
Alamo Group has a net margin of 7.92% compared to Alamo Group's net margin of 2.11%. Alamo Group's return on equity of 15.79% beat LegalZoom.com's return on equity.
Alamo Group has higher revenue and earnings than LegalZoom.com. Alamo Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LegalZoom.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alamo Group currently has a consensus target price of $212.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.28%. LegalZoom.com has a consensus target price of $14.36, suggesting a potential upside of 54.71%. Given Alamo Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe LegalZoom.com is more favorable than Alamo Group.
Alamo Group received 273 more outperform votes than LegalZoom.com when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.00% of users gave Alamo Group an outperform vote while only 35.21% of users gave LegalZoom.com an outperform vote.
Alamo Group has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LegalZoom.com has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Alamo Group beats LegalZoom.com on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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