AXON vs. BALL, HUBB, TS, DOV, AVY, IEX, ZBRA, PKG, NDSN, and AMCR
Should you be buying Axon Enterprise stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Axon Enterprise include Ball (BALL), Hubbell (HUBB), Tenaris (TS), Dover (DOV), Avery Dennison (AVY), IDEX (IEX), Zebra Technologies (ZBRA), Packaging Co. of America (PKG), Nordson (NDSN), and Amcor (AMCR). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Ball (NYSE:BALL) and Axon Enterprise (NASDAQ:AXON) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Axon Enterprise received 422 more outperform votes than Ball when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.11% of users gave Axon Enterprise an outperform vote while only 15.58% of users gave Ball an outperform vote.
86.5% of Ball shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.1% of Axon Enterprise shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Ball shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.1% of Axon Enterprise shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ball has a net margin of 31.42% compared to Ball's net margin of 15.60%. Axon Enterprise's return on equity of 21.79% beat Ball's return on equity.
Ball presently has a consensus price target of $69.23, suggesting a potential downside of 1.25%. Axon Enterprise has a consensus price target of $335.27, suggesting a potential upside of 16.10%. Given Ball's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Axon Enterprise is more favorable than Ball.
Ball has higher revenue and earnings than Axon Enterprise. Ball is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Axon Enterprise, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ball has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Axon Enterprise has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Ball had 33 more articles in the media than Axon Enterprise. MarketBeat recorded 52 mentions for Ball and 19 mentions for Axon Enterprise. Ball's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Axon Enterprise's score of 0.29 indicating that Axon Enterprise is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Axon Enterprise beats Ball on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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