KEYS vs. FTV, AME, MKSI, CGNX, ROP, MDB, ZS, MTD, SNAP, and NET
Should you be buying Keysight Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Keysight Technologies include Fortive (FTV), AMETEK (AME), MKS Instruments (MKSI), Cognex (CGNX), Roper Technologies (ROP), MongoDB (MDB), Zscaler (ZS), Mettler-Toledo International (MTD), Snap (SNAP), and Cloudflare (NET). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Fortive (NYSE:FTV) and Keysight Technologies (NYSE:KEYS) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, profitability, valuation and risk.
Keysight Technologies received 71 more outperform votes than Fortive when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.85% of users gave Keysight Technologies an outperform vote while only 59.75% of users gave Fortive an outperform vote.
Fortive currently has a consensus price target of $86.46, indicating a potential upside of 12.05%. Keysight Technologies has a consensus price target of $160.63, indicating a potential upside of 2.11%. Given Keysight Technologies' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Fortive is more favorable than Keysight Technologies.
94.9% of Fortive shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.6% of Keysight Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Fortive shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Keysight Technologies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Keysight Technologies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Fortive. Keysight Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fortive, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Keysight Technologies has a net margin of 18.14% compared to Keysight Technologies' net margin of 14.68%. Fortive's return on equity of 26.84% beat Keysight Technologies' return on equity.
In the previous week, Fortive had 1 more articles in the media than Keysight Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Fortive and 8 mentions for Keysight Technologies. Keysight Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Fortive's score of 0.81 indicating that Fortive is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Fortive has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Keysight Technologies has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Fortive and Keysight Technologies tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding KEYS and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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