YOU vs. ALRM, AIN, CSTM, BRC, ESE, MWA, GEF, JBT, ATMU, and UNF
Should you be buying Clear Secure stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Clear Secure include Alarm.com (ALRM), Albany International (AIN), Constellium (CSTM), Brady (BRC), ESCO Technologies (ESE), Mueller Water Products (MWA), Greif (GEF), John Bean Technologies (JBT), Atmus Filtration Technologies (ATMU), and UniFirst (UNF). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Alarm.com (NASDAQ:ALRM) and Clear Secure (NYSE:YOU) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability and institutional ownership.
Alarm.com received 382 more outperform votes than Clear Secure when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.10% of users gave Alarm.com an outperform vote while only 61.54% of users gave Clear Secure an outperform vote.
Alarm.com has higher revenue and earnings than Clear Secure. Clear Secure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alarm.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Clear Secure had 5 more articles in the media than Alarm.com. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Clear Secure and 5 mentions for Alarm.com. Alarm.com's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Clear Secure's score of -0.54 indicating that Clear Secure is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
91.7% of Alarm.com shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.8% of Clear Secure shares are held by institutional investors. 5.6% of Alarm.com shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 37.9% of Clear Secure 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.
Alarm.com has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Clear Secure has a beta of 1.59, indicating that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alarm.com currently has a consensus price target of $68.83, suggesting a potential downside of 0.41%. Clear Secure has a consensus price target of $28.40, suggesting a potential upside of 64.35%. Given Alarm.com's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Clear Secure is more favorable than Alarm.com.
Alarm.com has a net margin of 10.08% compared to Alarm.com's net margin of 7.90%. Alarm.com's return on equity of 20.62% beat Clear Secure's return on equity.
Summary
Alarm.com beats Clear Secure on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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