LegalZoom.com (NASDAQ:LZ – Get Free Report) and Horiba (OTCMKTS:HRIBF – Get Free Report) are both industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, valuation, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares LegalZoom.com and Horiba”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| LegalZoom.com | $681.88 million | 2.62 | $29.96 million | $0.16 | 62.00 |
| Horiba | $2.10 billion | 1.68 | $221.71 million | $5.74 | 14.63 |
Institutional & Insider Ownership
82.0% of LegalZoom.com shares are held by institutional investors. 5.9% of LegalZoom.com shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current ratings for LegalZoom.com and Horiba, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| LegalZoom.com | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2.11 |
| Horiba | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
LegalZoom.com presently has a consensus target price of $10.83, suggesting a potential upside of 9.21%. Given LegalZoom.com’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe LegalZoom.com is more favorable than Horiba.
Profitability
This table compares LegalZoom.com and Horiba’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| LegalZoom.com | 4.07% | 20.36% | 6.05% |
| Horiba | 11.19% | 12.26% | 7.99% |
Risk and Volatility
LegalZoom.com has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Horiba has a beta of 0.22, meaning that its stock price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
LegalZoom.com beats Horiba on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About LegalZoom.com
LegalZoom.com, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates an online platform that supports the legal, compliance, and business management needs of small businesses and consumers in the United States. The company’s platform offers business formation products, such as limited liability company, incorporation of C and S corporations, nonprofit formations, doing-business-as, corporate changes and filings, business licenses, legal forms, and beneficial ownership information reports; intellectual property products consisting of trademark and patent applications, and copyright registrations; and tax services, including business and personal tax preparations. It also provides consumer, estate planning, and other services comprising last will and testament, living will, living trust, power of attorney, and name change. In addition, the company offers subscriptions services, including registered agent, compliance, attorney advice, tax advice and preparation, eSignature, virtual mail and check deposit services, trademark monitoring, and estate planning bundle. The company was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
About Horiba
HORIBA, Ltd. manufactures and sells instruments and systems worldwide. The company operates in five segments: Automotive, Environment/Process, Medical, Semiconductor, and Scientific. The Automotive segment offers engine emission measurement devices; in-use vehicle emission measurement devices; on-board emission measurement devices; in-vehicle exhaust gas measuring devices; driveline test systems; engine test systems; brake test systems; fuel cell test devices; battery test devices; and vehicle development engineering and test engineering services, as well as leases and manages research and development facilities. The Environment/Process segment provides flue gas analyzers, water quality measuring devices, air pollution monitoring analyzers, environmental radiation measuring instruments, and process measurement equipment. The Medical segment offers hematology and CRP, immunology, clinical chemistry, and blood glucose analyzers, blood cell counters, biochemical testing devices, blood glucose testing devices, as well as coagulation/hemostasis analyzers. The Semiconductor segment provides mass flow controllers, chemical concentration monitors, semiconductor contaminant inspection equipment, and residual gas analyzer. The Scientific segment offers Raman spectrometers, pH meters, water quality measuring devices, particle size distribution measuring devices, X -ray fluorescence analyzers, elemental analyzers, fluorescence spectroscopy/lifetime measurement devices, spectrometer/detectors, and gratings. It also engages in the fund management, software development, and automation software for engine. The company’s products are used in arts, entertainment, and recreation; education, research and development, and government institution; food and beverage; energy and environment; health care; industrials; information technology; water; materials; mobility and transport; and waste management applications. HORIBA, Ltd. was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Kyoto, Japan.
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