ATKR vs. CAE, NOVT, FLNC, ENS, RUN, QS, SPB, ENR, ENVX, and SES
Should you be buying Atkore stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Atkore include CAE (CAE), Novanta (NOVT), Fluence Energy (FLNC), EnerSys (ENS), Sunrun (RUN), QuantumScape (QS), Spectrum Brands (SPB), Energizer (ENR), Enovix (ENVX), and SES AI (SES). These companies are all part of the "miscellaneous electrical machinery, equipment, & supplies" industry.
Atkore (NYSE:ATKR) and CAE (NYSE:CAE) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and risk.
Atkore has a net margin of 18.30% compared to CAE's net margin of -6.97%. Atkore's return on equity of 43.19% beat CAE's return on equity.
67.4% of CAE shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of Atkore shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.3% of CAE shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
CAE received 214 more outperform votes than Atkore when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.79% of users gave Atkore an outperform vote while only 62.60% of users gave CAE an outperform vote.
Atkore presently has a consensus price target of $187.00, suggesting a potential upside of 22.91%. CAE has a consensus price target of $34.75, suggesting a potential upside of 85.04%. Given CAE's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe CAE is more favorable than Atkore.
Atkore has a beta of 2.19, meaning that its stock price is 119% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CAE has a beta of 1.58, meaning that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Atkore has higher revenue and earnings than CAE. CAE is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Atkore, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, CAE had 46 more articles in the media than Atkore. MarketBeat recorded 49 mentions for CAE and 3 mentions for Atkore. Atkore's average media sentiment score of 0.24 beat CAE's score of -0.10 indicating that Atkore is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Atkore beats CAE on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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