Comparing Vontier (NYSE:VNT) & Sandisk (NASDAQ:SNDK)

Vontier (NYSE:VNT) and Sandisk (NASDAQ:SNDK) are both business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and dividends.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

95.8% of Vontier shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Vontier shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Sandisk 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.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Vontier and Sandisk”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Vontier	$3.08 billion	1.30	$406.10 million	$2.83	10.07
Sandisk	$7.36 billion	35.47	-$1.64 billion	$28.77	61.22

Vontier has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Sandisk. Vontier is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sandisk, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Risk and Volatility

Vontier has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sandisk has a beta of 4.88, suggesting that its stock price is 388% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Vontier and Sandisk’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Vontier	13.37%	37.88%	10.90%
Sandisk	34.19%	44.06%	33.63%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Vontier and Sandisk, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Vontier	1	4	5	0	2.40
Sandisk	0	3	19	3	3.00

Vontier currently has a consensus target price of $42.38, suggesting a potential upside of 48.74%. Sandisk has a consensus target price of $1,368.73, suggesting a potential downside of 22.29%. Given Vontier’s higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Vontier is more favorable than Sandisk.

Summary

Sandisk 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 Sandisk

SanDisk Corporation offers flash storage solutions. The Company designs, develops and manufactures data storage solutions in a range of form factors using flash memory, controller, firmware and software technologies. The Company operates through flash memory storage products segment. Its solutions include a range of solid state drives (SSD), embedded products, removable cards, universal serial bus (USB), drives, wireless media drives, digital media players, and wafers and components. It offers SSDs for client computing applications, which encompass desktop computers, notebook computers, tablets and other computing devices. Its embedded products are used for embedded storage for mobile phones, tablets, notebooks and other portable and wearable devices, as well as in automotive and connected home applications. Its removable products include cards, USB flash drives, Wireless Drives and Digital Media Players at a range of storage capacities. It sells memory wafers and memory components.