ZBRA vs. ZWS, GTES, GHM, TWIN, GTEC, IR, SWK, LECO, CNHI, and PNR
Should you be buying Zebra Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Zebra Technologies include Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (ZWS), Gates Industrial (GTES), Graham (GHM), Twin Disc (TWIN), Greenland Technologies (GTEC), Ingersoll Rand (IR), Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), Lincoln Electric (LECO), CNH Industrial (CNHI), and Pentair (PNR).
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (NYSE:ZWS) and Zebra Technologies (NASDAQ:ZBRA) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends and earnings.
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions has a net margin of 8.11% compared to Zurn Elkay Water Solutions' net margin of 6.46%. Zurn Elkay Water Solutions' return on equity of 15.30% beat Zebra Technologies' return on equity.
83.3% of Zurn Elkay Water Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.0% of Zebra Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.8% of Zurn Elkay Water Solutions shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Zebra Technologies shares are owned by 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.
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zebra Technologies has a beta of 1.79, indicating that its stock price is 79% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Zebra Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Zurn Elkay Water Solutions. Zurn Elkay Water Solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Zebra Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Zurn Elkay Water Solutions had 25 more articles in the media than Zebra Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for Zurn Elkay Water Solutions and 8 mentions for Zebra Technologies. Zebra Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Zurn Elkay Water Solutions' score of 0.54 indicating that Zurn Elkay Water Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Zebra Technologies received 463 more outperform votes than Zurn Elkay Water Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.07% of users gave Zebra Technologies an outperform vote while only 41.51% of users gave Zurn Elkay Water Solutions an outperform vote.
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions presently has a consensus price target of $33.50, indicating a potential upside of 5.68%. Zebra Technologies has a consensus price target of $278.64, indicating a potential downside of 6.25%. Given Zebra Technologies' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Zurn Elkay Water Solutions is more favorable than Zebra Technologies.
Summary
Zebra Technologies beats Zurn Elkay Water Solutions on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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