AZTA vs. BRC, ACLS, VECO, CRCT, ACMR, ERII, DM, MNTX, IVAC, and ASYS
Should you be buying Azenta stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Azenta include Brady (BRC), Axcelis Technologies (ACLS), Veeco Instruments (VECO), Cricut (CRCT), ACM Research (ACMR), Energy Recovery (ERII), Desktop Metal (DM), Manitex International (MNTX), Intevac (IVAC), and Amtech Systems (ASYS).
Brady (NYSE:BRC) and Azenta (NASDAQ:AZTA) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
76.3% of Brady shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.1% of Azenta shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.6% of Brady shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Azenta shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Brady currently has a consensus price target of $65.00, suggesting a potential downside of 4.79%. Azenta has a consensus price target of $68.40, suggesting a potential upside of 35.42%. Given Brady's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Azenta is more favorable than Brady.
Brady received 349 more outperform votes than Azenta when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.55% of users gave Brady an outperform vote while only 39.58% of users gave Azenta an outperform vote.
Brady has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Azenta has a beta of 1.51, meaning that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Brady has a net margin of 14.22% compared to Brady's net margin of -23.12%. Azenta's return on equity of 19.61% beat Brady's return on equity.
In the previous week, Brady had 15 more articles in the media than Azenta. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Brady and 5 mentions for Azenta. Brady's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Azenta's score of 0.29 indicating that Azenta is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Brady has higher revenue and earnings than Azenta. Azenta is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brady, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Brady beats Azenta on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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