ATS vs. SIS, BBD.B, SES, FTT, RUS, EIF, CJT, BBU.UN, MDA, and WTE
Should you be buying ATS stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ATS include Savaria (SIS), Bombardier, Inc. Class B (BBD.B), Secure Energy Services (SES), Finning International (FTT), Russel Metals (RUS), Exchange Income (EIF), Cargojet (CJT), Brookfield Business Partners (BBU.UN), MDA (MDA), and Westshore Terminals Investment (WTE). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Savaria (TSE:SIS) and ATS (TSE:ATS) are both industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.
ATS has a net margin of 5.88% compared to ATS's net margin of 4.52%. Savaria's return on equity of 12.98% beat ATS's return on equity.
28.0% of Savaria shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.0% of ATS shares are held by institutional investors. 20.4% of Savaria shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of ATS 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.
ATS has higher revenue and earnings than Savaria. ATS is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Savaria, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Savaria has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ATS has a beta of 1.45, indicating that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Savaria received 262 more outperform votes than ATS when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 77.78% of users gave ATS an outperform vote while only 69.52% of users gave Savaria an outperform vote.
Savaria presently has a consensus target price of C$21.71, suggesting a potential upside of 21.51%. ATS has a consensus target price of C$65.43, suggesting a potential upside of 42.36%. Given Savaria's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe ATS is more favorable than Savaria.
In the previous week, ATS had 4 more articles in the media than Savaria. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for ATS and 6 mentions for Savaria. ATS's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Savaria's score of -0.11 indicating that Savaria is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
ATS beats Savaria on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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