CRCT vs. WHD, HAYW, ATS, AZTA, EPAC, HSAI, DNOW, KRNT, EFXT, and CECO
Should you be buying Cricut stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cricut include Cactus (WHD), Hayward (HAYW), ATS (ATS), Azenta (AZTA), Enerpac Tool Group (EPAC), Hesai Group (HSAI), DNOW (DNOW), Kornit Digital (KRNT), Enerflex (EFXT), and CECO Environmental (CECO). These companies are all part of the "machinery" industry.
Cricut vs.
Cricut (NASDAQ:CRCT) and Cactus (NYSE:WHD) are both business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Cactus had 1 more articles in the media than Cricut. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Cactus and 1 mentions for Cricut. Cricut's average media sentiment score of 1.76 beat Cactus' score of 1.40 indicating that Cricut is being referred to more favorably in the media.
19.6% of Cricut shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.1% of Cactus shares are held by institutional investors. 18.0% of Cricut shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.8% of Cactus shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Cricut pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Cactus pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Cricut pays out 71.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cactus pays out 18.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Cactus has a net margin of 16.57% compared to Cricut's net margin of 8.47%. Cactus' return on equity of 20.24% beat Cricut's return on equity.
Cricut currently has a consensus price target of $5.25, suggesting a potential downside of 8.38%. Cactus has a consensus price target of $56.40, suggesting a potential downside of 11.23%. Given Cricut's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Cricut is more favorable than Cactus.
Cricut has a beta of -0.01, suggesting that its share price is 101% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cactus has a beta of 1.98, suggesting that its share price is 98% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cactus received 344 more outperform votes than Cricut when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.63% of users gave Cactus an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave Cricut an outperform vote.
Cactus has higher revenue and earnings than Cricut. Cricut is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cactus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Cactus beats Cricut on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:CRCT) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff