WTS vs. WIX, YNDX, MMYT, RDDT, CGNX, LYFT, ARW, BZ, MTSI, and AMKR
Should you be buying Watts Water Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Watts Water Technologies include Wix.com (WIX), Yandex (YNDX), MakeMyTrip (MMYT), Reddit (RDDT), Cognex (CGNX), Lyft (LYFT), Arrow Electronics (ARW), Kanzhun (BZ), MACOM Technology Solutions (MTSI), and Amkor Technology (AMKR). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Wix.com (NASDAQ:WIX) and Watts Water Technologies (NYSE:WTS) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends and earnings.
Wix.com currently has a consensus price target of $144.29, suggesting a potential upside of 19.43%. Watts Water Technologies has a consensus price target of $191.20, suggesting a potential downside of 5.11%. Given Watts Water Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Wix.com is more favorable than Watts Water Technologies.
Watts Water Technologies has a net margin of 12.75% compared to Watts Water Technologies' net margin of 2.12%. Wix.com's return on equity of 19.38% beat Watts Water Technologies' return on equity.
Watts Water Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Wix.com. Watts Water Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wix.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Wix.com has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Watts Water Technologies has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Wix.com had 1 more articles in the media than Watts Water Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Wix.com and 3 mentions for Watts Water Technologies. Wix.com's average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat Watts Water Technologies' score of 0.86 indicating that Watts Water Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
81.5% of Wix.com shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.0% of Watts Water Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.2% of Wix.com shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Watts Water Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Wix.com received 377 more outperform votes than Watts Water Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.63% of users gave Wix.com an outperform vote while only 57.01% of users gave Watts Water Technologies an outperform vote.
Summary
Wix.com beats Watts Water Technologies on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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