BRC vs. GNRC, AYI, WIRE, FELE, ENS, BDC, POWL, VICR, THR, and PLPC
Should you be buying Brady stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brady include Generac (GNRC), Acuity Brands (AYI), Encore Wire (WIRE), Franklin Electric (FELE), EnerSys (ENS), Belden (BDC), Powell Industries (POWL), Vicor (VICR), Thermon Group (THR), and Preformed Line Products (PLPC). These companies are all part of the "electrical components & equipment" industry.
Brady (NYSE:BRC) and Generac (NYSE:GNRC) 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 institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.
Brady presently has a consensus price target of $65.00, suggesting a potential downside of 4.79%. Generac has a consensus price target of $141.05, suggesting a potential downside of 4.18%. Given Generac's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Generac is more favorable than Brady.
Brady has a net margin of 14.22% compared to Generac's net margin of 5.68%. Brady's return on equity of 19.61% beat Generac's return on equity.
Brady has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Generac has a beta of 1.41, indicating that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Generac has higher revenue and earnings than Brady. Brady is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Generac, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Brady had 3 more articles in the media than Generac. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Brady and 17 mentions for Generac. Generac's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Brady's score of 0.29 indicating that Generac is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Generac received 110 more outperform votes than Brady when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.55% of users gave Brady an outperform vote while only 57.11% of users gave Generac an outperform vote.
76.3% of Brady shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.0% of Generac shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.6% of Brady shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Generac shares are owned by 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.
Summary
Brady and Generac tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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