Financial Contrast: Vishay Precision Group (VPG) and Its Peers

Vishay Precision Group (NYSE:VPG) is one of 377 public companies in the “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Vishay Precision Group to related businesses based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, valuation and earnings.

Profitability

This table compares Vishay Precision Group and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Vishay Precision Group	1.20%	1.77%	1.31%
Vishay Precision Group Competitors	-158.14%	-25.87%	-6.85%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

87.6% of Vishay Precision Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.5% of shares of all “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies are held by institutional investors. 7.6% of Vishay Precision Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.2% of shares of all “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Vishay Precision Group and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Vishay Precision Group	$307.20 million	$5.29 million	180.98
Vishay Precision Group Competitors	$4.00 billion	$172.92 million	6.16

Vishay Precision Group’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Vishay Precision Group. Vishay Precision Group is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for Vishay Precision Group and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Vishay Precision Group	2	0	2	0	2.00
Vishay Precision Group Competitors	2047	7597	10416	658	2.47

Vishay Precision Group presently has a consensus target price of $82.33, indicating a potential upside of 51.64%. As a group, “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies have a potential upside of 31.80%. Given Vishay Precision Group’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Vishay Precision Group is more favorable than its peers.

Volatility and Risk

Vishay Precision Group has a beta of 1.5, indicating that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vishay Precision Group’s peers have a beta of -0.25, indicating that their average share price is 125% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Vishay Precision Group beats its peers on 7 of the 13 factors compared.

Vishay Precision Group Company Profile

Vishay Precision Group, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets specialized sensors, weighing solutions, and measurement systems in the United States, Israel, the United Kingdom, rest of Europe, Asia, and Canada. It operates through three segments: Sensors, Weighing Solutions, and Measurement Systems. Its product portfolio includes precision resistors, strain gages, load cells and force measurement transducers, on-board weighing systems, and process weighing products; rolling force measuring load cell systems and pressure transmitters; web tension measurement load cells and systems; and optical strip width gages; and laser velocimeters for speed and length measurements and closed-loop crop optimization control systems for optimal strip cuts. The company also offers data acquisition systems and sensors for product safety testing; thermal-mechanical simulation systems for metallurgical research; and conditioning, data acquisition and control systems, as well as electronic displays, signal processors, microelectromechanical system sensors, cabling, system software, and communications software/hardware. Its products are used in industrial comprising waste management, bulk hauling, logging, scales manufacturing, engineering systems, pharmaceutical, oil, chemical, steel, paper, and food industries, as well as test and measurement, steel, medical, construction, agricultural, and consumer markets. The company offers its products under the Alpha Electronics, Powertron, Vishay Foil Resistors, Micro-Measurements, APR, Celtron, Revere, Sensortronics, Tedea-Huntleigh, Stress-tek, Vulcan, BLH Nobel, KELK, and DTS brands. Vishay Precision Group, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania.