SPXC vs. LECO, NNBR, GPN, VLTO, SYM, BR, KSPI, APTV, BAH, and STX
Should you be buying SPX Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SPX Technologies include Lincoln Electric (LECO), NN (NNBR), Global Payments (GPN), Veralto (VLTO), Symbotic (SYM), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz (KSPI), Aptiv (APTV), Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), and Seagate Technology (STX).
Lincoln Electric (NASDAQ:LECO) and SPX Technologies (NYSE:SPXC) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and dividends.
SPX Technologies received 4 more outperform votes than Lincoln Electric when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.68% of users gave Lincoln Electric an outperform vote while only 59.25% of users gave SPX Technologies an outperform vote.
Lincoln Electric currently has a consensus target price of $225.29, indicating a potential upside of 13.00%. SPX Technologies has a consensus target price of $141.00, indicating a potential downside of 0.70%. Given SPX Technologies' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Lincoln Electric is more favorable than SPX Technologies.
Lincoln Electric has higher revenue and earnings than SPX Technologies. Lincoln Electric is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SPX Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
79.6% of Lincoln Electric shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.8% of SPX Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Lincoln Electric shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.5% of SPX Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Lincoln Electric has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SPX Technologies has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lincoln Electric has a net margin of 13.23% compared to Lincoln Electric's net margin of 5.32%. SPX Technologies' return on equity of 43.81% beat Lincoln Electric's return on equity.
In the previous week, Lincoln Electric had 15 more articles in the media than SPX Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Lincoln Electric and 3 mentions for SPX Technologies. Lincoln Electric's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat SPX Technologies' score of 0.35 indicating that SPX Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Lincoln Electric beats SPX Technologies on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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