ZWS vs. ZBRA, GTES, EFXT, GHM, TWIN, GTEC, ITW, IR, HUBB, and TS
Should you be buying Zurn Elkay Water Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Zurn Elkay Water Solutions include Zebra Technologies (ZBRA), Gates Industrial (GTES), Enerflex (EFXT), Graham (GHM), Twin Disc (TWIN), Greenland Technologies (GTEC), Illinois Tool Works (ITW), Ingersoll Rand (IR), Hubbell (HUBB), and Tenaris (TS).
Zebra Technologies (NASDAQ:ZBRA) and Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (NYSE:ZWS) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Zebra Technologies received 469 more outperform votes than Zurn Elkay Water Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.18% of users gave Zebra Technologies an outperform vote while only 41.51% of users gave Zurn Elkay Water Solutions an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Zebra Technologies had 3 more articles in the media than Zurn Elkay Water Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Zebra Technologies and 4 mentions for Zurn Elkay Water Solutions. Zebra Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.56 beat Zurn Elkay Water Solutions' score of 1.54 indicating that Zurn Elkay Water Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Zebra Technologies has a beta of 1.7, meaning that its share price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zurn Elkay Water Solutions has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Zebra Technologies presently has a consensus price target of $312.27, indicating a potential upside of 3.80%. Zurn Elkay Water Solutions has a consensus price target of $33.50, indicating a potential upside of 10.71%. Given Zebra Technologies' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Zurn Elkay Water Solutions is more favorable than Zebra Technologies.
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions has a net margin of 8.11% compared to Zurn Elkay Water Solutions' net margin of 5.99%. Zurn Elkay Water Solutions' return on equity of 13.05% beat Zebra Technologies' return on equity.
91.0% of Zebra Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.3% of Zurn Elkay Water Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Zebra Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Zurn Elkay Water Solutions shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Zebra Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Zurn Elkay Water Solutions. Zurn Elkay Water Solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Zebra Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Zebra Technologies beats Zurn Elkay Water Solutions on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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