Vontier (NYSE:VNT – Get Free Report) and Keysight Technologies (NYSE:KEYS – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership and profitability.
Risk and Volatility
Vontier has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Keysight Technologies has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Vontier and Keysight Technologies”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Vontier | $3.08 billion | 1.42 | $406.10 million | $2.41 | 13.38 |
| Keysight Technologies | $5.38 billion | 12.11 | $850.00 million | $7.28 | 52.52 |
Keysight Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Vontier. Vontier is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Keysight Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Vontier and Keysight Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Vontier | 11.34% | 38.57% | 11.30% |
| Keysight Technologies | 19.08% | 24.34% | 13.10% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Vontier and Keysight Technologies, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Vontier | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2.38 |
| Keysight Technologies | 0 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 2.93 |
Vontier currently has a consensus target price of $41.00, indicating a potential upside of 27.14%. Keysight Technologies has a consensus target price of $401.42, indicating a potential upside of 4.99%. Given Vontier’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Vontier is more favorable than Keysight Technologies.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
95.8% of Vontier shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.6% of Keysight Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Vontier shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Keysight Technologies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Keysight Technologies beats Vontier on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Vontier
Vontier Corporation provides mobility ecosystem solutions worldwide. The company operates through Mobility Technologies, Repair Solutions, and Environmental and Fueling Solutions segments. The Mobility Technologies segment provides digitally equipment solutions for mobility ecosystem, such as point-of-sale and payment systems, workflow automation, telematics, data analytics, software platform, and integrated solutions for alternative fuel dispensing. The Repair Solutions segment manufactures and distributes vehicle repair tools, toolboxes, automotive diagnostic equipment and software through mobile franchise network. The Environmental and Fueling Solutions segment offers environmental, fueling hardware, software, and aftermarket solutions for fueling infrastructures. It also offers a range of solutions, including environmental sensors; fueling equipment; field payment hardware; point-of sale, workflow, and monitoring software; vehicle tracking and fleet management; software solutions for EV charging; and vehicle mechanics, and technicians equipment. The company markets its products and services to retail and commercial fueling, convenience store, and car wash operators; commercial vehicle repair businesses, fleet owners/operators and electric vehicle charging network operators, as well as direct sales personnel and independent distributors. It serves customers in North America, the Asia Pacific, Europe, and Latin America. Vontier Corporation was incorporated in 2019 and is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.
About Keysight Technologies
Keysight Technologies, Inc. provides electronic design and test solutions to commercial communications, networking, aerospace, defense and government, automotive, energy, semiconductor, electronic, and education industries in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. The company operates in two segments, Communications Solutions Group and Electronic Industrial Solutions Group. It offers electronic design automation (EDA) software; instrument measurement software, instrument workflow software, and software testing; digital multimeter, phase noise measurement, power meters and power sensors, counters, LCR meters and impedance measurement products, and electrometers; and spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers and exercisers, bit error ratio testers, noise figure analyzers, AC and DC power analyzers, materials test equipment, device current waveform analyzers, and curve tracers. The company also provides waveform and function generators, arbitrary waveform generators, DC power supplies, and DC electronic loads; wireless drive test, radio access and core network test, wireless analyzers, wireless network emulators, and over-the-air test; application and threat intelligence, cloud test, cyber training simulator, network test hardware, synthetic traffic generators, protocol and load test, network security test, and network modeling; bypass switches, clock synchronization, cloud visibility, network and application monitoring, network packet brokers, and network taps; and application-specific test systems, photonic test and measurement products, and MMIC millimeter-wave and microwave devices. In addition, it offers product support, technical support, installation, training, engineering, and integration services. The company sells its products through direct sales force, distributors, resellers, and manufacturer's representatives. Keysight Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in Santa Rosa, California.
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