SIS vs. ATS, BLDP, XBC, VLN, ENW, NXH, TLA, ATA, SES, and SVI
Should you be buying Savaria stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Savaria include ATS (ATS), Ballard Power Systems (BLDP), Xebec Adsorption (XBC), Velan (VLN), EnWave (ENW), Next Hydrogen Solutions (NXH), Titan Logix (TLA), ATS Automation Tooling Systems (ATA), Secure Energy Services (SES), and StorageVault Canada (SVI). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
ATS (TSE:ATS) and Savaria (TSE:SIS) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership and valuation.
In the previous week, Savaria had 2 more articles in the media than ATS. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Savaria and 1 mentions for ATS. ATS's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Savaria's score of -0.64 indicating that Savaria is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ATS currently has a consensus price target of C$61.29, indicating a potential upside of 41.15%. Savaria has a consensus price target of C$22.64, indicating a potential upside of 27.14%. Given Savaria's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe ATS is more favorable than Savaria.
94.8% of ATS shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.1% of Savaria shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of ATS shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.4% of Savaria shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Savaria received 259 more outperform votes than ATS when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.91% of users gave ATS an outperform vote while only 69.00% of users gave Savaria an outperform vote.
ATS has higher revenue and earnings than Savaria. ATS is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Savaria, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ATS has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Savaria has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
ATS has a net margin of 6.39% compared to ATS's net margin of 5.13%. Savaria's return on equity of 13.80% beat ATS's return on equity.
Summary
ATS beats Savaria on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of TSE 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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