ZWS vs. SYM, NVT, BWXT, ESAB, SPXC, MOG.B, CHX, WFRD, WHD, and JBTM
Should you be buying Zurn Elkay Water Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Zurn Elkay Water Solutions include Symbotic (SYM), nVent Electric (NVT), BWX Technologies (BWXT), ESAB (ESAB), SPX Technologies (SPXC), Moog (MOG.B), ChampionX (CHX), Weatherford International (WFRD), Cactus (WHD), and JBT Marel (JBTM). These companies are all part of the "machinery" industry.
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions vs.
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (NYSE:ZWS) and Symbotic (NASDAQ:SYM) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, risk, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions presently has a consensus target price of $38.67, indicating a potential upside of 10.81%. Symbotic has a consensus target price of $38.33, indicating a potential upside of 56.65%. Given Symbotic's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Symbotic is more favorable than Zurn Elkay Water Solutions.
83.3% of Zurn Elkay Water Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.8% of Zurn Elkay Water Solutions shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Symbotic shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Symbotic has a beta of 1.79, indicating that its stock price is 79% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Symbotic. Symbotic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Zurn Elkay Water Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Symbotic received 38 more outperform votes than Zurn Elkay Water Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.64% of users gave Symbotic an outperform vote while only 40.32% of users gave Zurn Elkay Water Solutions an outperform vote.
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions has a net margin of 10.23% compared to Symbotic's net margin of -0.38%. Zurn Elkay Water Solutions' return on equity of 14.03% beat Symbotic's return on equity.
In the previous week, Zurn Elkay Water Solutions had 1 more articles in the media than Symbotic. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Zurn Elkay Water Solutions and 8 mentions for Symbotic. Zurn Elkay Water Solutions' average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Symbotic's score of 0.74 indicating that Zurn Elkay Water Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions beats Symbotic on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:ZWS) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
