VRT vs. PI, AEIS, LPL, VICR, VREX, MVIS, NEON, NSYS, LGL, and OST
Should you be buying Vertiv stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vertiv include Impinj (PI), Advanced Energy Industries (AEIS), LG Display (LPL), Vicor (VICR), Varex Imaging (VREX), MicroVision (MVIS), Neonode (NEON), Nortech Systems (NSYS), The LGL Group (LGL), and Ostin Technology Group (OST). These companies are all part of the "electronic components, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Vertiv (NYSE:VRT) and Impinj (NASDAQ:PI) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, valuation, risk, earnings, media sentiment and dividends.
89.9% of Vertiv shares are held by institutional investors. 5.0% of Vertiv shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 51.0% of Impinj shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Vertiv has a beta of 1.55, suggesting that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Impinj has a beta of 1.85, suggesting that its share price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Vertiv currently has a consensus price target of $91.00, indicating a potential downside of 7.13%. Impinj has a consensus price target of $143.10, indicating a potential downside of 12.57%. Given Vertiv's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Vertiv is more favorable than Impinj.
Impinj received 384 more outperform votes than Vertiv when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.13% of users gave Impinj an outperform vote while only 55.08% of users gave Vertiv an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Vertiv had 23 more articles in the media than Impinj. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Vertiv and 6 mentions for Impinj. Impinj's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Vertiv's score of 0.64 indicating that Impinj is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Vertiv has higher revenue and earnings than Impinj. Impinj is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vertiv, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Vertiv has a net margin of 5.79% compared to Impinj's net margin of -1.90%. Vertiv's return on equity of 44.95% beat Impinj's return on equity.
Summary
Vertiv beats Impinj on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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