VRRM vs. WIRE, FELE, TEX, GATX, ENS, SLGN, BDC, VMI, MSM, and ALRM Should you be buying Verra Mobility stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Verra Mobility include Encore Wire (WIRE), Franklin Electric (FELE), Terex (TEX), GATX (GATX), EnerSys (ENS), Silgan (SLGN), Belden (BDC), Valmont Industries (VMI), MSC Industrial Direct (MSM), and Alarm.com (ALRM).
Encore Wire (NASDAQ:WIRE ) and Verra Mobility (NASDAQ:VRRM ) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, dividends, profitability, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
99.8% of Encore Wire shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.6% of Encore Wire shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Verra Mobility shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Encore Wire has a net margin of 12.45% compared to Encore Wire's net margin of 9.77%. Encore Wire's return on equity of 37.87% beat Verra Mobility's return on equity.
Encore Wire received 205 more outperform votes than Verra Mobility when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.42% of users gave Encore Wire an outperform vote while only 50.38% of users gave Verra Mobility an outperform vote.
Encore Wire has higher revenue and earnings than Verra Mobility. Encore Wire is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Verra Mobility, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Encore Wire had 3 more articles in the media than Verra Mobility. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Encore Wire and 4 mentions for Verra Mobility. Encore Wire's average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat Verra Mobility's score of 0.99 indicating that Verra Mobility is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Encore Wire currently has a consensus target price of $273.33, indicating a potential downside of 2.58%. Verra Mobility has a consensus target price of $22.33, indicating a potential downside of 18.28%. Given Verra Mobility's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Encore Wire is more favorable than Verra Mobility.
Encore Wire has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Verra Mobility has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary Encore Wire beats Verra Mobility on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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