ESAB (ESAB) Competitors

Symbotic (NASDAQ:SYM) and ESAB (NYSE:ESAB) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and community ranking.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in SYM or ESAB?

Symbotic received 40 more outperform votes than ESAB when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.22% of users gave Symbotic an outperform vote while only 46.00% of users gave ESAB an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Symbotic	Outperform Votes 63 51.22%	Underperform Votes 60 48.78%
ESAB	Outperform Votes 23 46.00%	Underperform Votes 27 54.00%

Do analysts recommend SYM or ESAB?

Symbotic currently has a consensus price target of $38.20, indicating a potential upside of 62.84%. ESAB has a consensus price target of $134.14, indicating a potential upside of 8.38%. Given Symbotic's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Symbotic is more favorable than ESAB.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Symbotic	1 Sell rating(s)	7 Hold rating(s)	9 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.47
ESAB	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67

Which has more volatility & risk, SYM or ESAB?

Symbotic has a beta of 1.85, suggesting that its share price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ESAB has a beta of 1.36, suggesting that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of SYM or ESAB?

91.1% of ESAB shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Symbotic shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.0% of ESAB shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Which has higher valuation and earnings, SYM or ESAB?

ESAB has higher revenue and earnings than Symbotic. Symbotic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ESAB, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Symbotic	$1.91B	7.21	-$13.49M	-$0.07	-335.11
ESAB	$2.74B	2.73	$205.29M	$4.32	28.65

Is SYM or ESAB more profitable?

ESAB has a net margin of 9.66% compared to Symbotic's net margin of -0.38%. ESAB's return on equity of 17.43% beat Symbotic's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Symbotic	-0.38%	5.11%	1.23%
ESAB	9.66%	17.43%	7.80%

Does the media refer more to SYM or ESAB?

In the previous week, ESAB had 2 more articles in the media than Symbotic. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for ESAB and 6 mentions for Symbotic. ESAB's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Symbotic's score of 1.04 indicating that ESAB is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Symbotic	5 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
ESAB	6 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

ESAB beats Symbotic on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.