VLTO vs. TER, ITRI, COHU, TRNS, ALNT, AEHR, INTT, FEIM, DAIO, and FI
Should you be buying Veralto stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Veralto include Teradyne (TER), Itron (ITRI), Cohu (COHU), Transcat (TRNS), Allient (ALNT), Aehr Test Systems (AEHR), inTEST (INTT), Frequency Electronics (FEIM), Data I/O (DAIO), and Fiserv (FI).
Veralto (NYSE:VLTO) and Teradyne (NASDAQ:TER) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Veralto pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Teradyne pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Veralto pays out 10.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Teradyne pays out 18.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Veralto is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Veralto currently has a consensus price target of $95.18, suggesting a potential downside of 3.45%. Teradyne has a consensus price target of $122.17, suggesting a potential downside of 13.32%. Given Veralto's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Veralto is more favorable than Teradyne.
Teradyne received 48 more outperform votes than Veralto when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.11% of users gave Veralto an outperform vote while only 45.38% of users gave Teradyne an outperform vote.
91.3% of Veralto shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.8% of Teradyne shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Veralto shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Teradyne shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Veralto has higher revenue and earnings than Teradyne. Veralto is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Teradyne, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Teradyne had 4 more articles in the media than Veralto. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Teradyne and 11 mentions for Veralto. Veralto's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Teradyne's score of 0.98 indicating that Veralto is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Teradyne has a net margin of 16.15% compared to Veralto's net margin of 0.00%. Veralto's return on equity of 33.82% beat Teradyne's return on equity.
Summary
Veralto beats Teradyne on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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