ATS vs. RRX, ESAB, HSAI, OUST, TAYD, RR, PDYN, EKSO, AZ, and KITT
Should you be buying ATS stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ATS include Regal Rexnord (RRX), ESAB (ESAB), Hesai Group (HSAI), Ouster (OUST), Taylor Devices (TAYD), Richtech Robotics (RR), Palladyne AI (PDYN), Ekso Bionics (EKSO), A2Z Smart Technologies (AZ), and Nauticus Robotics (KITT). These companies are all part of the "general industrial machinery," industry.
ATS (NYSE:ATS) and Regal Rexnord (NYSE:RRX) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings and dividends.
ATS has a net margin of 6.39% compared to Regal Rexnord's net margin of -0.48%. ATS's return on equity of 15.97% beat Regal Rexnord's return on equity.
ATS currently has a consensus target price of $45.67, indicating a potential upside of 43.47%. Regal Rexnord has a consensus target price of $195.60, indicating a potential upside of 30.80%. Given ATS's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe ATS is more favorable than Regal Rexnord.
75.8% of ATS shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.7% of Regal Rexnord shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Regal Rexnord shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Regal Rexnord received 28 more outperform votes than ATS when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.57% of users gave Regal Rexnord an outperform vote while only 25.00% of users gave ATS an outperform vote.
ATS has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Regal Rexnord. Regal Rexnord is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ATS, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Regal Rexnord had 8 more articles in the media than ATS. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Regal Rexnord and 5 mentions for ATS. ATS's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Regal Rexnord's score of 0.32 indicating that ATS is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Regal Rexnord beats ATS on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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