VECO vs. ERII, ACLS, ACMR, WB, VRNT, ODD, SWI, DFIN, PD, and CRTO
Should you be buying Veeco Instruments stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Veeco Instruments include Energy Recovery (ERII), Axcelis Technologies (ACLS), ACM Research (ACMR), Weibo (WB), Verint Systems (VRNT), Oddity Tech (ODD), SolarWinds (SWI), Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN), PagerDuty (PD), and Criteo (CRTO).
Energy Recovery (NASDAQ:ERII) and Veeco Instruments (NASDAQ:VECO) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, profitability, risk, valuation, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
83.6% of Energy Recovery shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.5% of Veeco Instruments shares are held by institutional investors. 4.7% of Energy Recovery shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of Veeco Instruments shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Energy Recovery had 3 more articles in the media than Veeco Instruments. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Energy Recovery and 1 mentions for Veeco Instruments. Energy Recovery's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Veeco Instruments' score of 0.84 indicating that Veeco Instruments is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Energy Recovery has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Veeco Instruments. Veeco Instruments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Energy Recovery, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Energy Recovery has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Veeco Instruments has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Energy Recovery presently has a consensus price target of $25.33, suggesting a potential upside of 78.40%. Veeco Instruments has a consensus price target of $36.57, suggesting a potential upside of 4.01%. Given Veeco Instruments' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Energy Recovery is more favorable than Veeco Instruments.
Energy Recovery has a net margin of 16.75% compared to Energy Recovery's net margin of -4.56%. Veeco Instruments' return on equity of 11.99% beat Energy Recovery's return on equity.
Veeco Instruments received 111 more outperform votes than Energy Recovery when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.93% of users gave Energy Recovery an outperform vote while only 54.75% of users gave Veeco Instruments an outperform vote.
Summary
Energy Recovery beats Veeco Instruments on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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