QS vs. CAE, NOVT, ATKR, ENS, FLNC, RUN, SPB, ENR, ENVX, and SES
Should you be buying QuantumScape stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of QuantumScape include CAE (CAE), Novanta (NOVT), Atkore (ATKR), EnerSys (ENS), Fluence Energy (FLNC), Sunrun (RUN), Spectrum Brands (SPB), Energizer (ENR), Enovix (ENVX), and SES AI (SES). These companies are all part of the "miscellaneous electrical machinery, equipment, & supplies" industry.
CAE (NYSE:CAE) and QuantumScape (NYSE:QS) are both mid-cap aerospace companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings and risk.
CAE received 546 more outperform votes than QuantumScape when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.60% of users gave CAE an outperform vote while only 29.03% of users gave QuantumScape an outperform vote.
In the previous week, CAE had 52 more articles in the media than QuantumScape. MarketBeat recorded 53 mentions for CAE and 1 mentions for QuantumScape. CAE's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat QuantumScape's score of -0.12 indicating that QuantumScape is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CAE presently has a consensus price target of $34.75, indicating a potential upside of 85.04%. QuantumScape has a consensus price target of $6.09, indicating a potential upside of 3.00%. Given QuantumScape's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe CAE is more favorable than QuantumScape.
QuantumScape has a net margin of 0.00% compared to QuantumScape's net margin of -6.97%. QuantumScape's return on equity of 6.10% beat CAE's return on equity.
CAE has higher revenue and earnings than QuantumScape. CAE is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than QuantumScape, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
67.4% of CAE shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.9% of QuantumScape shares are held by institutional investors. 18.3% of CAE shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.2% of QuantumScape shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
CAE has a beta of 1.58, suggesting that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, QuantumScape has a beta of 4.74, suggesting that its share price is 374% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
CAE beats QuantumScape on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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