FARO vs. GEOS, MLAB, DAKT, VPG, MTSC, CUB, COHR, CGNX, BMI, and ITRI
Should you be buying FARO Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FARO Technologies include Geospace Technologies (GEOS), Mesa Laboratories (MLAB), Daktronics (DAKT), Vishay Precision Group (VPG), MTS Systems (MTSC), Cubic (CUB), Coherent (COHR), Cognex (CGNX), Badger Meter (BMI), and Itron (ITRI).
Geospace Technologies (NASDAQ:GEOS) and FARO Technologies (NASDAQ:FARO) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
Geospace Technologies has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FARO Technologies has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Geospace Technologies and Geospace Technologies both had 4 articles in the media. Geospace Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat FARO Technologies' score of 0.76 indicating that FARO Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
FARO Technologies has a consensus target price of $26.50, suggesting a potential upside of 46.09%. Given Geospace Technologies' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe FARO Technologies is more favorable than Geospace Technologies.
Geospace Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than FARO Technologies. FARO Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Geospace Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
FARO Technologies received 125 more outperform votes than Geospace Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.48% of users gave FARO Technologies an outperform vote while only 56.12% of users gave Geospace Technologies an outperform vote.
Geospace Technologies has a net margin of 11.75% compared to Geospace Technologies' net margin of -11.92%. FARO Technologies' return on equity of 11.65% beat Geospace Technologies' return on equity.
57.2% of Geospace Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.2% of FARO Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 6.9% of Geospace Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of FARO Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Geospace Technologies and FARO Technologies tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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