JBL vs. TRMB, FN, PLXS, SANM, IPGP, TTMI, MRCY, BHE, CTS, and MEI
Should you be buying Jabil stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Jabil include Trimble (TRMB), Fabrinet (FN), Plexus (PLXS), Sanmina (SANM), IPG Photonics (IPGP), TTM Technologies (TTMI), Mercury Systems (MRCY), Benchmark Electronics (BHE), CTS (CTS), and Methode Electronics (MEI). These companies are all part of the "electronic manufacturing services" industry.
Jabil vs.
Jabil (NYSE:JBL) and Trimble (NASDAQ:TRMB) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.
Jabil presently has a consensus target price of $153.17, indicating a potential downside of 6.00%. Trimble has a consensus target price of $84.86, indicating a potential upside of 13.26%. Given Trimble's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Trimble is more favorable than Jabil.
Jabil has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Trimble has a beta of 1.52, suggesting that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Jabil had 2 more articles in the media than Trimble. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Jabil and 12 mentions for Trimble. Jabil's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Trimble's score of 0.38 indicating that Jabil is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Jabil received 87 more outperform votes than Trimble when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.26% of users gave Trimble an outperform vote while only 66.84% of users gave Jabil an outperform vote.
93.4% of Jabil shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.2% of Trimble shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Jabil shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Trimble shares are owned by company 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.
Jabil has higher revenue and earnings than Trimble. Trimble is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Jabil, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Trimble has a net margin of 40.67% compared to Jabil's net margin of 4.71%. Jabil's return on equity of 41.87% beat Trimble's return on equity.
Summary
Jabil beats Trimble on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:JBL) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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