PLXS vs. KE, FN, IPGP, SANM, TTMI, MRCY, CTS, BHE, MEI, and PKE
Should you be buying Plexus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Plexus include Kimball Electronics (KE), Fabrinet (FN), IPG Photonics (IPGP), Sanmina (SANM), TTM Technologies (TTMI), Mercury Systems (MRCY), CTS (CTS), Benchmark Electronics (BHE), Methode Electronics (MEI), and Park Aerospace (PKE).
Kimball Electronics (NASDAQ:KE) and Plexus (NASDAQ:PLXS) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends and media sentiment.
Kimball Electronics currently has a consensus target price of $33.33, indicating a potential upside of 49.21%. Plexus has a consensus target price of $107.75, indicating a potential downside of 2.18%. Given Plexus' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Kimball Electronics is more favorable than Plexus.
Plexus received 128 more outperform votes than Kimball Electronics when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.99% of users gave Kimball Electronics an outperform vote while only 62.61% of users gave Plexus an outperform vote.
76.0% of Kimball Electronics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.5% of Plexus shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Kimball Electronics shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of Plexus shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Kimball Electronics has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Plexus has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Plexus has higher revenue and earnings than Kimball Electronics. Kimball Electronics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Plexus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Plexus had 6 more articles in the media than Kimball Electronics. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Plexus and 2 mentions for Kimball Electronics. Plexus' average media sentiment score of 1.88 beat Kimball Electronics' score of 0.88 indicating that Kimball Electronics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Plexus has a net margin of 2.54% compared to Plexus' net margin of 1.81%. Kimball Electronics' return on equity of 10.77% beat Plexus' return on equity.
Summary
Plexus beats Kimball Electronics on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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