ITRI vs. MWA, COHU, ZI, VRNS, VERX, AVT, CVLT, PI, CWAN, and PEGA
Should you be buying Itron stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Itron include Mueller Water Products (MWA), Cohu (COHU), ZoomInfo Technologies (ZI), Varonis Systems (VRNS), Vertex (VERX), Avnet (AVT), Commvault Systems (CVLT), Impinj (PI), Clearwater Analytics (CWAN), and Pegasystems (PEGA).
Mueller Water Products (NYSE:MWA) and Itron (NASDAQ:ITRI) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends and profitability.
Itron received 133 more outperform votes than Mueller Water Products when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.01% of users gave Mueller Water Products an outperform vote while only 64.39% of users gave Itron an outperform vote.
Mueller Water Products has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Itron has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Mueller Water Products presently has a consensus price target of $20.00, indicating a potential upside of 4.17%. Itron has a consensus price target of $104.18, indicating a potential downside of 4.46%. Given Itron's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Mueller Water Products is more favorable than Itron.
In the previous week, Mueller Water Products had 1 more articles in the media than Itron. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Mueller Water Products and 9 mentions for Itron. Mueller Water Products' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Itron's score of 0.74 indicating that Itron is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Itron has higher revenue and earnings than Mueller Water Products. Mueller Water Products is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Itron, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
91.7% of Mueller Water Products shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.2% of Itron shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Mueller Water Products shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Itron shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Mueller Water Products has a net margin of 8.10% compared to Mueller Water Products' net margin of 7.03%. Itron's return on equity of 16.97% beat Mueller Water Products' return on equity.
Summary
Itron beats Mueller Water Products on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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