AZZ vs. LZ, ALG, AMBP, OI, ATMU, EPAC, TNC, SXI, KMT, and UFPT
Should you be buying AZZ stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AZZ include LegalZoom.com (LZ), Alamo Group (ALG), Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMBP), O-I Glass (OI), Atmus Filtration Technologies (ATMU), Enerpac Tool Group (EPAC), Tennant (TNC), Standex International (SXI), Kennametal (KMT), and UFP Technologies (UFPT). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
LegalZoom.com (NASDAQ:LZ) and AZZ (NYSE:AZZ) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
82.0% of LegalZoom.com shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.9% of AZZ shares are held by institutional investors. 10.5% of LegalZoom.com shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of AZZ shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
LegalZoom.com presently has a consensus price target of $14.75, indicating a potential upside of 62.98%. AZZ has a consensus price target of $80.00, indicating a potential upside of 4.40%. Given AZZ's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe LegalZoom.com is more favorable than AZZ.
AZZ has a net margin of 6.61% compared to AZZ's net margin of 3.15%. AZZ's return on equity of 19.47% beat LegalZoom.com's return on equity.
LegalZoom.com has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AZZ has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
AZZ received 268 more outperform votes than LegalZoom.com when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.16% of users gave AZZ an outperform vote while only 36.11% of users gave LegalZoom.com an outperform vote.
In the previous week, LegalZoom.com had 11 more articles in the media than AZZ. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for LegalZoom.com and 3 mentions for AZZ. AZZ's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat LegalZoom.com's score of 0.68 indicating that LegalZoom.com is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AZZ has higher revenue and earnings than LegalZoom.com. AZZ is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LegalZoom.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
LegalZoom.com beats AZZ on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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