SYM vs. RKT, APP, GPN, EFX, VLTO, BR, KSPI, APTV, CPAY, and BAH
Should you be buying Symbotic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Symbotic include Rocket Companies (RKT), AppLovin (APP), Global Payments (GPN), Equifax (EFX), Veralto (VLTO), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz (KSPI), Aptiv (APTV), Corpay (CPAY), and Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Symbotic (NASDAQ:SYM) and Rocket Companies (NYSE:RKT) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
In the previous week, Symbotic had 14 more articles in the media than Rocket Companies. MarketBeat recorded 42 mentions for Symbotic and 28 mentions for Rocket Companies. Rocket Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Symbotic's score of 0.51 indicating that Rocket Companies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Rocket Companies has higher revenue and earnings than Symbotic. Symbotic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rocket Companies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Rocket Companies received 355 more outperform votes than Symbotic when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.33% of users gave Rocket Companies an outperform vote while only 47.44% of users gave Symbotic an outperform vote.
4.6% of Rocket Companies shares are held by institutional investors. 38.3% of Symbotic shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 94.1% of Rocket Companies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Symbotic has a beta of 1.97, indicating that its stock price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rocket Companies has a beta of 2.43, indicating that its stock price is 143% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Symbotic presently has a consensus target price of $55.69, indicating a potential upside of 15.16%. Rocket Companies has a consensus target price of $10.60, indicating a potential downside of 23.66%. Given Symbotic's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Symbotic is more favorable than Rocket Companies.
Rocket Companies has a net margin of 0.43% compared to Symbotic's net margin of -1.39%. Rocket Companies' return on equity of -1.05% beat Symbotic's return on equity.
Summary
Rocket Companies beats Symbotic on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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