ESE vs. NSSC, MWA, YOU, AIN, CSTM, BRC, JBT, GEF, REZI, and UNF
Should you be buying ESCO Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ESCO Technologies include Napco Security Technologies (NSSC), Mueller Water Products (MWA), Clear Secure (YOU), Albany International (AIN), Constellium (CSTM), Brady (BRC), John Bean Technologies (JBT), Greif (GEF), Resideo Technologies (REZI), and UniFirst (UNF). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Napco Security Technologies (NASDAQ:NSSC) and ESCO Technologies (NYSE:ESE) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk and earnings.
85.1% of Napco Security Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.7% of ESCO Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.5% of Napco Security Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of ESCO Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Napco Security Technologies pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. ESCO Technologies pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Napco Security Technologies pays out 33.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ESCO Technologies pays out 8.9% 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. Napco Security Technologies has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Napco Security Technologies is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Napco Security Technologies had 18 more articles in the media than ESCO Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Napco Security Technologies and 1 mentions for ESCO Technologies. ESCO Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Napco Security Technologies' score of 0.00 indicating that Napco Security Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
ESCO Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Napco Security Technologies. ESCO Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Napco Security Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Napco Security Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $41.83, suggesting a potential downside of 8.54%. ESCO Technologies has a consensus price target of $120.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.85%. Given Napco Security Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe ESCO Technologies is more favorable than Napco Security Technologies.
Napco Security Technologies has a net margin of 25.08% compared to Napco Security Technologies' net margin of 9.60%. ESCO Technologies' return on equity of 30.81% beat Napco Security Technologies' return on equity.
Napco Security Technologies has a beta of 1.51, meaning that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ESCO Technologies has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ESCO Technologies received 138 more outperform votes than Napco Security Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.42% of users gave Napco Security Technologies an outperform vote while only 58.56% of users gave ESCO Technologies an outperform vote.
Summary
Napco Security Technologies beats ESCO Technologies on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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