HRS vs. GRMN, GIB, GFS, KEYS, VOD, WDC, SPLK, MSTR, ON, and ZS
Should you be buying Harris stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Harris include Garmin (GRMN), CGI (GIB), GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GFS), Keysight Technologies (KEYS), Vodafone Group Public (VOD), Western Digital (WDC), Splunk (SPLK), MicroStrategy (MSTR), Onsemi (ON), and Zscaler (ZS). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Garmin (NYSE:GRMN) and Harris (NYSE:HRS) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation and profitability.
In the previous week, Harris had 28 more articles in the media than Garmin. MarketBeat recorded 39 mentions for Harris and 11 mentions for Garmin. Harris' average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Garmin's score of 0.00 indicating that Garmin is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Garmin has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Harris has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
73.4% of Garmin shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.7% of Harris shares are held by institutional investors. 19.9% of Garmin shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Harris shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Harris received 66 more outperform votes than Garmin when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.89% of users gave Harris an outperform vote while only 52.36% of users gave Garmin an outperform vote.
Garmin has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Harris. Garmin is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Harris, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Garmin has a net margin of 24.67% compared to Garmin's net margin of 13.60%. Garmin's return on equity of 27.13% beat Harris' return on equity.
Garmin presently has a consensus price target of $142.33, suggesting a potential downside of 1.47%. Given Harris' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Garmin is more favorable than Harris.
Garmin pays an annual dividend of $2.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Harris pays an annual dividend of $2.74 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Garmin pays out 43.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Harris pays out 42.2% 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. Garmin has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Garmin is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Garmin beats Harris on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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