IRBT vs. NC, WHR, HELE, COOK, VIOT, AOS, SN, MRC, TRS, and CMCO
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), MRC Global (MRC), TriMas (TRS), and Columbus McKinnon (CMCO).
iRobot (NASDAQ:IRBT) and NACCO Industries (NYSE:NC) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation and earnings.
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.
iRobot has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NACCO Industries has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
77.4% of iRobot shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.1% of NACCO Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of iRobot shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 41.3% of NACCO Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, iRobot had 5 more articles in the media than NACCO Industries. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for iRobot and 0 mentions for NACCO Industries. NACCO Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat iRobot's score of 0.40 indicating that NACCO Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
iRobot presently has a consensus target price of $13.00, suggesting a potential upside of 36.41%. Given iRobot's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe iRobot is more favorable than NACCO Industries.
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.
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.
Summary
NACCO Industries beats iRobot on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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