VPG vs. MLAB, DAKT, FARO, COHR, CGNX, BMI, ITRI, OSIS, SNPO, and CETX
Should you be buying Vishay Precision Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vishay Precision Group include Mesa Laboratories (MLAB), Daktronics (DAKT), FARO Technologies (FARO), Coherent (COHR), Cognex (CGNX), Badger Meter (BMI), Itron (ITRI), OSI Systems (OSIS), Snap One (SNPO), and Cemtrex (CETX).
Mesa Laboratories (NASDAQ:MLAB) and Vishay Precision Group (NYSE:VPG) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Mesa Laboratories currently has a consensus target price of $130.00, indicating a potential upside of 35.84%. Vishay Precision Group has a consensus target price of $36.00, indicating a potential upside of 6.60%. Given Vishay Precision Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Mesa Laboratories is more favorable than Vishay Precision Group.
Mesa Laboratories has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vishay Precision Group has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
90.6% of Mesa Laboratories shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.6% of Vishay Precision Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.2% of Mesa Laboratories shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of Vishay Precision Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Vishay Precision Group has higher revenue and earnings than Mesa Laboratories. Vishay Precision Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mesa Laboratories, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Vishay Precision Group received 103 more outperform votes than Mesa Laboratories when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.06% of users gave Vishay Precision Group an outperform vote while only 63.82% of users gave Mesa Laboratories an outperform vote.
Vishay Precision Group has a net margin of 7.10% compared to Vishay Precision Group's net margin of 0.45%. Mesa Laboratories' return on equity of 8.68% beat Vishay Precision Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Mesa Laboratories had 7 more articles in the media than Vishay Precision Group. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Mesa Laboratories and 0 mentions for Vishay Precision Group. Vishay Precision Group's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Mesa Laboratories' score of 0.00 indicating that Mesa Laboratories is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Vishay Precision Group beats Mesa Laboratories on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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