YOU vs. ALRM, JBT, CSTM, BRC, REZI, GEF, ESE, UNF, ATMU, and AIN
Should you be buying Clear Secure stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Clear Secure include Alarm.com (ALRM), John Bean Technologies (JBT), Constellium (CSTM), Brady (BRC), Resideo Technologies (REZI), Greif (GEF), ESCO Technologies (ESE), UniFirst (UNF), Atmus Filtration Technologies (ATMU), and Albany International (AIN). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Clear Secure (NYSE:YOU) and Alarm.com (NASDAQ:ALRM) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, valuation and community ranking.
Alarm.com has higher revenue and earnings than Clear Secure. Alarm.com is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Clear Secure, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Clear Secure presently has a consensus target price of $28.40, suggesting a potential upside of 66.28%. Alarm.com has a consensus target price of $68.83, suggesting a potential downside of 0.39%. Given Clear Secure's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Clear Secure is more favorable than Alarm.com.
In the previous week, Alarm.com had 9 more articles in the media than Clear Secure. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Alarm.com and 19 mentions for Clear Secure. Clear Secure's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat Alarm.com's score of -0.46 indicating that Clear Secure is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Clear Secure has a beta of 1.59, meaning that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alarm.com has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Alarm.com received 385 more outperform votes than Clear Secure when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.21% of users gave Alarm.com an outperform vote while only 59.18% of users gave Clear Secure an outperform vote.
Alarm.com has a net margin of 9.19% compared to Clear Secure's net margin of 4.58%. Alarm.com's return on equity of 11.61% beat Clear Secure's return on equity.
73.8% of Clear Secure shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.7% of Alarm.com shares are held by institutional investors. 39.9% of Clear Secure shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.6% of Alarm.com shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Alarm.com beats Clear Secure on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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