IRBT vs. NC, WHR, HELE, COOK, VIOT, AOS, SN, TRS, GRC, and CECO
Should you be buying iRobot stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of iRobot include NACCO Industries (NC), Whirlpool (WHR), Helen of Troy (HELE), Traeger (COOK), Viomi Technology (VIOT), A. O. Smith (AOS), SharkNinja (SN), TriMas (TRS), Gorman-Rupp (GRC), and CECO Environmental (CECO).
iRobot (NASDAQ:IRBT) and NACCO Industries (NYSE:NC) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk and dividends.
NACCO Industries has lower revenue, but higher earnings than iRobot. NACCO Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than iRobot, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
77.4% of iRobot shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.1% of NACCO Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of iRobot shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 41.3% of NACCO Industries shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
iRobot currently has a consensus target price of $13.00, suggesting a potential upside of 35.28%. Given iRobot's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe iRobot is more favorable than NACCO Industries.
iRobot has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NACCO Industries has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, iRobot had 3 more articles in the media than NACCO Industries. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for iRobot and 1 mentions for NACCO Industries. iRobot's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat NACCO Industries' score of 0.59 indicating that iRobot is being referred to more favorably in the media.
iRobot received 362 more outperform votes than NACCO Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.19% of users gave iRobot an outperform vote while only 63.87% of users gave NACCO Industries an outperform vote.
NACCO Industries has a net margin of -18.68% compared to iRobot's net margin of -24.42%. NACCO Industries' return on equity of 2.79% beat iRobot's return on equity.
Summary
iRobot beats NACCO Industries on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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