HUBB vs. NXPI, VRT, LHX, NOK, ERIC, GFS, ASX, STM, UI, and FLEX
Should you be buying Hubbell stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hubbell include NXP Semiconductors (NXPI), Vertiv (VRT), L3Harris Technologies (LHX), Nokia Oyj (NOK), Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (ERIC), GlobalFoundries (GFS), ASE Technology (ASX), STMicroelectronics (STM), Ubiquiti (UI), and Flex (FLEX). These companies are all part of the "electronic equipment" industry.
Hubbell vs.
NXP Semiconductors (NASDAQ:NXPI) and Hubbell (NYSE:HUBB) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
NXP Semiconductors pays an annual dividend of $4.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Hubbell pays an annual dividend of $5.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. NXP Semiconductors pays out 41.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hubbell pays out 36.8% 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. Hubbell has increased its dividend for 17 consecutive years.
NXP Semiconductors has higher revenue and earnings than Hubbell. NXP Semiconductors is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hubbell, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NXP Semiconductors has a net margin of 19.90% compared to Hubbell's net margin of 13.82%. NXP Semiconductors' return on equity of 31.45% beat Hubbell's return on equity.
NXP Semiconductors presently has a consensus price target of $267.00, suggesting a potential upside of 8.60%. Hubbell has a consensus price target of $471.50, suggesting a potential upside of 21.20%. Given Hubbell's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Hubbell is more favorable than NXP Semiconductors.
NXP Semiconductors has a beta of 1.46, indicating that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hubbell has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
90.5% of NXP Semiconductors shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.2% of Hubbell shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of NXP Semiconductors shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Hubbell shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, NXP Semiconductors had 17 more articles in the media than Hubbell. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for NXP Semiconductors and 16 mentions for Hubbell. NXP Semiconductors' average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Hubbell's score of 0.98 indicating that NXP Semiconductors is being referred to more favorably in the media.
NXP Semiconductors received 788 more outperform votes than Hubbell when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.50% of users gave NXP Semiconductors an outperform vote while only 57.19% of users gave Hubbell an outperform vote.
Summary
NXP Semiconductors beats Hubbell on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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