ELSE vs. CLIR, SYPR, SMIT, DHR, ROP, AME, FTV, KEYS, MKSI, and CGNX
Should you be buying Electro-Sensors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Electro-Sensors include ClearSign Technologies (CLIR), Sypris Solutions (SYPR), Schmitt Industries (SMIT), Danaher (DHR), Roper Technologies (ROP), AMETEK (AME), Fortive (FTV), Keysight Technologies (KEYS), MKS Instruments (MKSI), and Cognex (CGNX). These companies are all part of the "process control instruments" industry.
ClearSign Technologies (NASDAQ:CLIR) and Electro-Sensors (NASDAQ:ELSE) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and community ranking.
ClearSign Technologies has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Electro-Sensors has a beta of 0.37, indicating that its stock price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500.
ClearSign Technologies received 61 more outperform votes than Electro-Sensors when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 46.04% of users gave ClearSign Technologies an outperform vote while only 35.57% of users gave Electro-Sensors an outperform vote.
24.0% of ClearSign Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.7% of Electro-Sensors shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.9% of ClearSign Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.3% of Electro-Sensors shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Electro-Sensors has a net margin of 3.77% compared to Electro-Sensors' net margin of -186.63%. ClearSign Technologies' return on equity of 2.42% beat Electro-Sensors' return on equity.
ClearSign Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $6.00, suggesting a potential upside of 622.89%. Given Electro-Sensors' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe ClearSign Technologies is more favorable than Electro-Sensors.
In the previous week, ClearSign Technologies had 7 more articles in the media than Electro-Sensors. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for ClearSign Technologies and 3 mentions for Electro-Sensors. Electro-Sensors' average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat ClearSign Technologies' score of 0.00 indicating that ClearSign Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Electro-Sensors has higher revenue and earnings than ClearSign Technologies. ClearSign Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Electro-Sensors, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
ClearSign Technologies beats Electro-Sensors on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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