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).
Nordson (NASDAQ:NDSN) and Symbotic (NASDAQ:SYM) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, risk and earnings.
In the previous week, Nordson had 8 more articles in the media than Symbotic. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Nordson and 23 mentions for Symbotic. Nordson's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat Symbotic's score of 0.36 indicating that Symbotic is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nordson presently has a consensus price target of $277.83, indicating a potential upside of 20.80%. Symbotic has a consensus price target of $55.69, indicating a potential upside of 36.07%. Given Nordson's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly 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.
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.
Nordson has a net margin of 18.23% compared to Nordson's net margin of -1.27%. Symbotic's return on equity of 20.20% beat Nordson's return on equity.
Nordson has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Symbotic has a beta of 1.97, suggesting that its share price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500.
72.1% of Nordson shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Nordson shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 38.3% of Symbotic shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Nordson beats Symbotic on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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