COHR vs. WEX, CART, STN, FCN, CFLT, DUOL, NOV, RHI, PCOR, and ULS
Should you be buying Coherent stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Coherent include WEX (WEX), Maplebear (CART), Stantec (STN), FTI Consulting (FCN), Confluent (CFLT), Duolingo (DUOL), NOV (NOV), Robert Half (RHI), Procore Technologies (PCOR), and UL Solutions (ULS). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
WEX (NYSE:WEX) and Coherent (NYSE:COHR) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability and institutional ownership.
WEX currently has a consensus price target of $240.00, suggesting a potential upside of 21.08%. Coherent has a consensus price target of $56.36, suggesting a potential downside of 3.05%. Given Coherent's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe WEX is more favorable than Coherent.
WEX has a net margin of 10.21% compared to WEX's net margin of -6.22%. Coherent's return on equity of 30.92% beat WEX's return on equity.
WEX has a beta of 1.6, indicating that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coherent has a beta of 1.69, indicating that its stock price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Coherent received 42 more outperform votes than WEX when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.70% of users gave Coherent an outperform vote while only 60.71% of users gave WEX an outperform vote.
97.5% of WEX shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.3% of Coherent shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of WEX shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Coherent shares are held by company 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.
WEX has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Coherent. Coherent is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than WEX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, WEX had 3 more articles in the media than Coherent. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for WEX and 5 mentions for Coherent. Coherent's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat WEX's score of -0.05 indicating that WEX is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
WEX beats Coherent on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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