ADT (NYSE:ADT – Get Free Report) and Avolta (OTCMKTS:DUFRY – Get Free Report) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends and risk.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
87.2% of ADT shares are held by institutional investors. 3.0% of ADT shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Volatility & Risk
ADT has a beta of 1, indicating that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Avolta has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| ADT | 11.85% | 18.99% | 4.40% |
| Avolta | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares ADT and Avolta”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| ADT | $5.13 billion | 1.06 | $595.95 million | $0.71 | 10.44 |
| Avolta | $16.60 billion | 0.48 | $240.19 million | N/A | N/A |
ADT has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Avolta.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for ADT and Avolta, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| ADT | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2.14 |
| Avolta | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 |
ADT currently has a consensus price target of $8.23, suggesting a potential upside of 11.07%. Given ADT’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe ADT is more favorable than Avolta.
Summary
ADT beats Avolta on 11 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
About ADT
ADT Inc. provides security, interactive, and smart home solutions to residential and small business customers in the United States. It operates through two segments, Consumer and Small Business, and Solar. The company provides burglar and life safety alarms, smart security cameras, smart home automation systems, and video surveillance systems. It primarily offers security designed to detect intrusion, control access, sense movement, smoke, fire, carbon monoxide, flooding, temperature, and other environmental conditions and hazards; and address personal medical emergencies, such as injuries or unanticipated falls. The company also provides automation and smart home solutions that allow customers to use their smart phones, smart phone application, or touchscreen panels in their homes to arm and disarm their security systems; record and view real-time video; and creates customized and automated schedules for connected devices; programs systems to react to defined events; integrates system with third-party connected devices, such as cameras, lights, thermostats, appliances, and garage doors, as well as offers monitoring and maintenance services. In addition, the company offers energy storage solutions, energy efficiency upgrades, and roofing services. It offers its products under the ADT, ADT Pulse, ADT+, and ADT Commercial brand names. The company was formerly known as Prime Security Services Parent, Inc. and changed its name to ADT Inc. in September 2017. ADT Inc. was founded in 1874 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.
About Avolta
Avolta AG operates as a travel retailer. The company’s retail brands include general travel retail shops under the Dufry, World Duty Free, Nuance, Hellenic Duty Free, Zurich Duty-Free or Stockholm Duty-Free, Autogrill, and HMSHost brands; Dufry shopping stores; brand boutiques; convenience stores primarily under the Hudson brand; and specialized shops and theme stores. It offers perfumes and cosmetics, food and confectionery, wines and spirits, watches and jewelry, fashion and leather, tobacco goods, souvenirs, electronics, soft drinks, packaged food, travel accessories, personal items, sunglasses, destination, and other products, as well as newspapers, magazines, and books. It operates duty-free and duty-paid shops located at airports, border, downtown and hotel shops, railway stations and other, cruise liners and ferries, seaports, and motorways in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North America, Latin America, and the Asia Pacific. The company was formerly known as Dufry AG and changed its name to Avolta AG in November 2023. Avolta AG was incorporated in 1865 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.
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