ZBRA vs. XRX, IR, ZWS, GTES, EFXT, GHM, TWIN, INLF, GTEC, and STRCW
Should you be buying Zebra Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Zebra Technologies include Xerox (XRX), Ingersoll Rand (IR), Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (ZWS), Gates Industrial (GTES), Enerflex (EFXT), Graham (GHM), Twin Disc (TWIN), INLIF (INLF), Greenland Technologies (GTEC), and Palladyne AI (STRCW).
Zebra Technologies vs.
Xerox (NYSE:XRX) and Zebra Technologies (NASDAQ:ZBRA) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Zebra Technologies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Xerox. Xerox is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Zebra Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Zebra Technologies has a net margin of 10.60% compared to Xerox's net margin of -21.24%. Zebra Technologies' return on equity of 18.34% beat Xerox's return on equity.
Xerox has a beta of 1.56, suggesting that its stock price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zebra Technologies has a beta of 1.76, suggesting that its stock price is 76% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Xerox currently has a consensus target price of $9.50, suggesting a potential upside of 140.51%. Zebra Technologies has a consensus target price of $343.36, suggesting a potential upside of 51.44%. Given Xerox's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Xerox is more favorable than Zebra Technologies.
In the previous week, Zebra Technologies had 9 more articles in the media than Xerox. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Zebra Technologies and 7 mentions for Xerox. Zebra Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Xerox's score of 0.77 indicating that Zebra Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Zebra Technologies received 43 more outperform votes than Xerox when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.36% of users gave Zebra Technologies an outperform vote while only 53.78% of users gave Xerox an outperform vote.
85.4% of Xerox shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.0% of Zebra Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Xerox shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Zebra Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Zebra Technologies beats Xerox on 17 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:ZBRA) was last updated on 4/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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