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Should you be buying Vishay Precision Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vishay Precision Group include Daktronics (DAKT), Mesa Laboratories (MLAB), FARO Technologies (FARO), Coherent (COHR), Cognex (CGNX), Badger Meter (BMI), Itron (ITRI), OSI Systems (OSIS), Cemtrex (CETX), and Hubbell (HUBB).
Vishay Precision Group vs.
Daktronics (NASDAQ:DAKT) and Vishay Precision Group (NYSE:VPG) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Vishay Precision Group has a consensus target price of $31.00, suggesting a potential upside of 36.14%. Given Vishay Precision Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Vishay Precision Group is more favorable than Daktronics.
Vishay Precision Group received 88 more outperform votes than Daktronics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.58% of users gave Vishay Precision Group an outperform vote while only 64.03% of users gave Daktronics an outperform vote.
61.7% of Daktronics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.6% of Vishay Precision Group shares are held by institutional investors. 8.1% of Daktronics shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of Vishay Precision Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Daktronics had 2 more articles in the media than Vishay Precision Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Daktronics and 3 mentions for Vishay Precision Group. Vishay Precision Group's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Daktronics' score of 0.75 indicating that Vishay Precision Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Vishay Precision Group has a net margin of 4.13% compared to Daktronics' net margin of 3.62%. Daktronics' return on equity of 19.61% beat Vishay Precision Group's return on equity.
Daktronics has higher revenue and earnings than Vishay Precision Group. Vishay Precision Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Daktronics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Daktronics has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vishay Precision Group has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Daktronics beats Vishay Precision Group on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:VPG) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
