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Electro-Sensors (ELSE) Competitors

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ELSE vs. CLIR, SYPR, SMIT, DHR, ROP, AME, KEYS, FTV, MKSI, and CGNX

Should you be buying Electro-Sensors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Electro-Sensors include ClearSign Technologies (CLIR), Sypris Solutions (SYPR), Schmitt Industries (SMIT), Danaher (DHR), Roper Technologies (ROP), AMETEK (AME), Keysight Technologies (KEYS), Fortive (FTV), MKS Instruments (MKSI), and Cognex (CGNX). These companies are all part of the "process control instruments" industry.

Electro-Sensors vs.

ClearSign Technologies (NASDAQ:CLIR) and Electro-Sensors (NASDAQ:ELSE) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.

ClearSign Technologies has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Electro-Sensors has a beta of 0.45, suggesting that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.

ClearSign Technologies received 62 more outperform votes than Electro-Sensors when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 42.82% of users gave ClearSign Technologies an outperform vote while only 32.26% of users gave Electro-Sensors an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
ClearSign TechnologiesOutperform Votes
152
42.82%
Underperform Votes
203
57.18%
Electro-SensorsOutperform Votes
90
32.26%
Underperform Votes
189
67.74%

Electro-Sensors has a net margin of 4.74% compared to ClearSign Technologies' net margin of -118.93%. Electro-Sensors' return on equity of 3.17% beat ClearSign Technologies' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
ClearSign Technologies-118.93% -50.44% -41.41%
Electro-Sensors 4.74%3.17%3.01%

In the previous week, ClearSign Technologies had 4 more articles in the media than Electro-Sensors. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for ClearSign Technologies and 0 mentions for Electro-Sensors. ClearSign Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Electro-Sensors' score of 0.00 indicating that ClearSign Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
ClearSign Technologies Positive
Electro-Sensors Neutral

ClearSign Technologies presently has a consensus price target of $6.00, indicating a potential upside of 430.97%. Given ClearSign Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe ClearSign Technologies is more favorable than Electro-Sensors.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
ClearSign Technologies
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Electro-Sensors
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Electro-Sensors has higher revenue and earnings than ClearSign Technologies. ClearSign Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Electro-Sensors, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
ClearSign Technologies$4.28M13.26-$5.19M-$0.11-10.27
Electro-Sensors$8.56M2.12$280K$0.1340.77

24.0% of ClearSign Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.7% of Electro-Sensors shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.9% of ClearSign Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 13.3% of Electro-Sensors shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

ClearSign Technologies beats Electro-Sensors on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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ELSE vs. The Competition

MetricElectro-SensorsProcess control instruments IndustryComputer SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$18.18M$19.81B$26.10B$9.08B
Dividend YieldN/A0.73%2.78%4.23%
P/E Ratio40.7746.13237.6617.19
Price / Sales2.124.623,361.43117.05
Price / Cash40.8817.0735.8537.85
Price / Book1.323.768.154.78
Net Income$280,000.00$406.10M$685.86M$225.60M

Electro-Sensors Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ELSE
Electro-Sensors
0.4612 of 5 stars
$5.30
+2.9%
N/A+36.2%$18.18M$8.56M40.7737Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
CLIR
ClearSign Technologies
3.3902 of 5 stars
$1.10
-5.6%
$6.00
+447.9%
-5.8%$55.00M$2.40M-10.5510Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
SYPR
Sypris Solutions
0.3221 of 5 stars
$1.56
-0.5%
N/A+7.2%$35.98M$141.47M-12.08680Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Positive News
SMIT
Schmitt Industries
N/A$0.02
flat
N/A-29.2%$69,000.00$9.89M0.00157
DHR
Danaher
4.8984 of 5 stars
$235.27
+0.2%
$287.95
+22.4%
-0.8%$169.93B$23.89B44.8363,000Analyst Forecast
ROP
Roper Technologies
4.1223 of 5 stars
$545.80
+0.4%
$615.20
+12.7%
-2.8%$58.53B$6.18B39.7716,800Positive News
AME
AMETEK
4.8214 of 5 stars
$190.04
+1.4%
$202.50
+6.6%
+12.1%$43.96B$6.91B32.6421,500
KEYS
Keysight Technologies
4.8414 of 5 stars
$171.55
+3.0%
$180.80
+5.4%
+2.8%$29.77B$4.98B49.0414,900Analyst Revision
FTV
Fortive
4.6857 of 5 stars
$76.86
flat
$86.73
+12.8%
+2.6%$26.67B$6.20B30.5518,000Analyst Forecast
MKSI
MKS Instruments
4.9607 of 5 stars
$112.35
-0.2%
$141.00
+25.5%
+4.5%$7.56B$3.54B250.1110,200
CGNX
Cognex
4.6464 of 5 stars
$37.81
+2.0%
$47.91
+26.7%
-14.7%$6.48B$837.55M71.312,992Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
News Coverage

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This page (NASDAQ:ELSE) was last updated on 12/22/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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