ZWS vs. ZBRA, SEE, CWST, ATKR, SON, MSM, VMI, SLGN, TKR, and FLS
Should you be buying Zurn Elkay Water Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Zurn Elkay Water Solutions include Zebra Technologies (ZBRA), Sealed Air (SEE), Casella Waste Systems (CWST), Atkore (ATKR), Sonoco Products (SON), MSC Industrial Direct (MSM), Valmont Industries (VMI), Silgan (SLGN), Timken (TKR), and Flowserve (FLS). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (NYSE:ZWS) and Zebra Technologies (NASDAQ:ZBRA) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Zebra Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Zurn Elkay Water Solutions. Zurn Elkay Water Solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Zebra Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions has a net margin of 8.11% compared to Zebra Technologies' net margin of 5.99%. Zebra Technologies' return on equity of 13.05% beat Zurn Elkay Water Solutions' return on equity.
Zebra Technologies received 469 more outperform votes than Zurn Elkay Water Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.18% of users gave Zebra Technologies an outperform vote while only 41.51% of users gave Zurn Elkay Water Solutions an outperform vote.
83.3% of Zurn Elkay Water Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.0% of Zebra Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.8% of Zurn Elkay Water Solutions shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Zebra Technologies shares are owned by company 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.
In the previous week, Zebra Technologies had 20 more articles in the media than Zurn Elkay Water Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Zebra Technologies and 2 mentions for Zurn Elkay Water Solutions. Zurn Elkay Water Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.77 beat Zebra Technologies' score of 0.70 indicating that Zurn Elkay Water Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions presently has a consensus target price of $33.50, indicating a potential upside of 2.98%. Zebra Technologies has a consensus target price of $312.27, indicating a potential downside of 1.77%. Given Zurn Elkay Water Solutions' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Zurn Elkay Water Solutions is more favorable than Zebra Technologies.
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zebra Technologies has a beta of 1.76, suggesting that its share price is 76% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Zebra Technologies beats Zurn Elkay Water Solutions on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding ZWS and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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