FELE vs. RBC, GNRC, AMSC, RRX, WIRE, SEE, VMI, VRRM, SLGN, and TEX
Should you be buying Franklin Electric stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Franklin Electric include RBC Bearings (RBC), Generac (GNRC), American Superconductor (AMSC), Regal Rexnord (RRX), Encore Wire (WIRE), Sealed Air (SEE), Valmont Industries (VMI), Verra Mobility (VRRM), Silgan (SLGN), and Terex (TEX).
RBC Bearings (NYSE:RBC) and Franklin Electric (NASDAQ:FELE) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, dividends and community ranking.
RBC Bearings has a beta of 1.46, suggesting that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Franklin Electric has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Franklin Electric had 10 more articles in the media than RBC Bearings. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Franklin Electric and 4 mentions for RBC Bearings. Franklin Electric's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat RBC Bearings' score of 0.05 indicating that RBC Bearings is being referred to more favorably in the media.
RBC Bearings presently has a consensus target price of $275.86, indicating a potential upside of 4.35%. Franklin Electric has a consensus target price of $100.00, indicating a potential downside of 1.22%. Given Franklin Electric's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe RBC Bearings is more favorable than Franklin Electric.
80.0% of Franklin Electric shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.9% of RBC Bearings shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Franklin Electric shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Franklin Electric received 60 more outperform votes than RBC Bearings when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.53% of users gave Franklin Electric an outperform vote while only 55.27% of users gave RBC Bearings an outperform vote.
RBC Bearings has a net margin of 12.81% compared to RBC Bearings' net margin of 9.25%. RBC Bearings' return on equity of 15.86% beat Franklin Electric's return on equity.
Franklin Electric has higher revenue and earnings than RBC Bearings. Franklin Electric is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RBC Bearings, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
RBC Bearings beats Franklin Electric on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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