ENS vs. ATKR, BDC, KAI, VRRM, ALRM, ATS, TEX, UNF, CSTM, and VMI
Should you be buying EnerSys stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of EnerSys include Atkore (ATKR), Belden (BDC), Kadant (KAI), Verra Mobility (VRRM), Alarm.com (ALRM), ATS (ATS), Terex (TEX), UniFirst (UNF), Constellium (CSTM), and Valmont Industries (VMI). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Atkore (NYSE:ATKR) and EnerSys (NYSE:ENS) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
Atkore presently has a consensus target price of $191.00, suggesting a potential upside of 8.37%. EnerSys has a consensus target price of $126.00, suggesting a potential upside of 35.08%. Given Atkore's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe EnerSys is more favorable than Atkore.
EnerSys received 41 more outperform votes than Atkore when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.33% of users gave EnerSys an outperform vote while only 67.05% of users gave Atkore an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Atkore had 3 more articles in the media than EnerSys. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Atkore and 6 mentions for EnerSys. EnerSys' average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Atkore's score of 0.62 indicating that Atkore is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Atkore has a beta of 2.19, meaning that its share price is 119% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EnerSys has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Atkore has a net margin of 18.80% compared to Atkore's net margin of 7.49%. EnerSys' return on equity of 46.79% beat Atkore's return on equity.
94.9% of EnerSys shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Atkore shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of EnerSys shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Atkore pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. EnerSys pays an annual dividend of $0.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Atkore pays out 7.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. EnerSys pays out 13.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. EnerSys has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. EnerSys is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Atkore has higher earnings, but lower revenue than EnerSys. Atkore is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than EnerSys, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Atkore beats EnerSys on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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