BMI vs. CLS, BILI, NOVT, SMAR, ALGM, TENB, STNE, NVMI, DV, and ALIT
Should you be buying Badger Meter stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Badger Meter include Celestica (CLS), Bilibili (BILI), Novanta (NOVT), Smartsheet (SMAR), Allegro MicroSystems (ALGM), Tenable (TENB), StoneCo (STNE), Nova (NVMI), DoubleVerify (DV), and Alight (ALIT). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Celestica (NYSE:CLS) and Badger Meter (NYSE:BMI) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, dividends, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Celestica has a beta of 2.25, meaning that its stock price is 125% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Badger Meter has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Celestica has higher revenue and earnings than Badger Meter. Celestica is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Badger Meter, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Celestica presently has a consensus target price of $44.56, suggesting a potential downside of 15.00%. Badger Meter has a consensus target price of $164.80, suggesting a potential downside of 16.06%. Given Badger Meter's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Celestica is more favorable than Badger Meter.
Celestica received 80 more outperform votes than Badger Meter when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.68% of users gave Celestica an outperform vote while only 52.80% of users gave Badger Meter an outperform vote.
67.4% of Celestica shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.0% of Badger Meter shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Celestica shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Badger Meter shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Badger Meter has a net margin of 13.81% compared to Badger Meter's net margin of 3.86%. Celestica's return on equity of 20.26% beat Badger Meter's return on equity.
In the previous week, Celestica had 12 more articles in the media than Badger Meter. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Celestica and 7 mentions for Badger Meter. Badger Meter's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Celestica's score of 0.81 indicating that Celestica is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Celestica beats Badger Meter on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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