EFXT vs. JBTM, HAYW, ATS, EPAC, HSAI, AZTA, SEI, DNOW, ACMR, and KRNT
Should you be buying Enerflex stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Enerflex include JBT Marel (JBTM), Hayward (HAYW), ATS (ATS), Enerpac Tool Group (EPAC), Hesai Group (HSAI), Azenta (AZTA), Solaris Energy Infrastructure (SEI), DNOW (DNOW), ACM Research (ACMR), and Kornit Digital (KRNT). These companies are all part of the "machinery" industry.
Enerflex vs.
JBT Marel (NYSE:JBTM) and Enerflex (NYSE:EFXT) are both business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
JBT Marel has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enerflex has a beta of 2.01, suggesting that its share price is 101% more volatile than the S&P 500.
JBT Marel pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Enerflex pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. JBT Marel pays out 7.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Enerflex pays out -19.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Enerflex is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
JBT Marel has a net margin of 10.25% compared to Enerflex's net margin of -3.15%. JBT Marel's return on equity of 10.16% beat Enerflex's return on equity.
In the previous week, JBT Marel had 7 more articles in the media than Enerflex. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for JBT Marel and 3 mentions for Enerflex. Enerflex's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat JBT Marel's score of -0.27 indicating that Enerflex is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
JBT Marel has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Enerflex. Enerflex is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JBT Marel, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Enerflex received 5 more outperform votes than JBT Marel when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave JBT Marel an outperform vote while only 30.00% of users gave Enerflex an outperform vote.
98.9% of JBT Marel shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.5% of Enerflex shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of JBT Marel shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
JBT Marel presently has a consensus price target of $143.00, suggesting a potential upside of 20.24%. Enerflex has a consensus price target of $12.00, suggesting a potential upside of 33.85%. Given Enerflex's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Enerflex is more favorable than JBT Marel.
Summary
JBT Marel beats Enerflex on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:EFXT) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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