SYM vs. NDSN, RRX, ESAB, ATS, HSAI, OUST, LITT, TAYD, NFYS, and GATE
Should you be buying Symbotic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Symbotic include Nordson (NDSN), Regal Rexnord (RRX), ESAB (ESAB), ATS (ATS), Hesai Group (HSAI), Ouster (OUST), Logistics Innovation Technologies (LITT), Taylor Devices (TAYD), Enphys Acquisition (NFYS), and Marblegate Acquisition (GATE).
Symbotic (NASDAQ:SYM) and Nordson (NASDAQ:NDSN) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, profitability and dividends.
Symbotic currently has a consensus target price of $55.69, indicating a potential upside of 34.43%. Nordson has a consensus target price of $277.83, indicating a potential upside of 20.12%. Given Symbotic's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Symbotic is more favorable than Nordson.
Nordson received 412 more outperform votes than Symbotic when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.51% of users gave Nordson an outperform vote while only 46.84% of users gave Symbotic an outperform vote.
72.1% of Nordson shares are held by institutional investors. 38.3% of Symbotic shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Nordson shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Nordson has higher revenue and earnings than Symbotic. Symbotic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nordson, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Symbotic has a beta of 1.97, indicating that its share price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nordson has a beta of 1, indicating that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Symbotic and Symbotic both had 22 articles in the media. Symbotic's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat Nordson's score of 0.47 indicating that Symbotic is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Nordson has a net margin of 18.23% compared to Symbotic's net margin of -1.27%. Nordson's return on equity of 20.20% beat Symbotic's return on equity.
Summary
Nordson beats Symbotic on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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