VLTO vs. SYM, BR, KSPI, CPAY, APP, APTV, RKT, BAH, EFX, and OMC
Should you be buying Veralto stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Veralto include Symbotic (SYM), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz (KSPI), Corpay (CPAY), AppLovin (APP), Aptiv (APTV), Rocket Companies (RKT), Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), Equifax (EFX), and Omnicom Group (OMC). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Symbotic (NASDAQ:SYM) and Veralto (NYSE:VLTO) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Veralto has higher revenue and earnings than Symbotic.
In the previous week, Symbotic had 29 more articles in the media than Veralto. MarketBeat recorded 38 mentions for Symbotic and 9 mentions for Veralto. Symbotic's average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat Veralto's score of 0.40 indicating that Veralto is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
91.3% of Veralto shares are held by institutional investors. 38.3% of Symbotic shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Veralto shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Symbotic received 25 more outperform votes than Veralto when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.11% of users gave Veralto an outperform vote while only 46.75% of users gave Symbotic an outperform vote.
Veralto has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Veralto's net margin of -1.39%. Symbotic's return on equity of 33.82% beat Veralto's return on equity.
Symbotic currently has a consensus price target of $55.77, indicating a potential upside of 19.93%. Veralto has a consensus price target of $95.18, indicating a potential downside of 2.15%. Given Veralto's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Symbotic is more favorable than Veralto.
Summary
Veralto beats Symbotic on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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