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Garmin vs Keysight Technologies

GRMN and KEYS side by side. Figures are trailing twelve months unless noted, from SEC filings and end-of-day prices.

How GRMN and KEYS compare

Garmin and Keysight Technologies are about the same size, with market caps of $52.6B and $52.3B.

On earnings, Garmin is cheaper: it trades at 28.1× trailing earnings, against 42.1× for Keysight Technologies.

Keysight Technologies grew revenue faster over the last twelve months (25.5% versus 13.5% for Garmin).

Garmin keeps more of each dollar of sales as profit, with a net margin of 24.5% compared with 19.1% at Keysight Technologies.

Garmin pays a dividend yielding 1.4%; Keysight Technologies does not pay one.

Garmin scores higher on the StockData Score (22 against 14 for Keysight Technologies), which adds up 30 checks on valuation, growth, past performance, financial health and dividends.

Key numbers

A dot marks the better figure where higher or lower is clearly better.

MetricGRMNKEYS
Size and price
Market cap$52.6B$52.3B
Share price$272.67$307.20
Change, 1 year24.2%80.2%
Change, 5 years91.8%67.2%
Beta (5Y)0.971.38
Employees6,50017K
StockData Score
Total score22 (better)14
Valuation score11
Growth score6 (better)2
Performance score6 (better)5
Health score66
Dividend score3 (better)0
Valuation
P/E28.1× (better)42.1×
P/S6.9× (better)7.9×
P/B5.8× (better)8.0×
EV/EBITDA23.6× (better)39.2×
P/FCF32.9× (better)35.6×
PEG1.45–
FCF yield3.0% (better)2.8%
Fair value$247.45$245.85
Margin of safety−10.2% (better)−25.0%
Growth
Revenue growth (TTM)13.5%25.5% (better)
Revenue growth, 5Y average11.6% (better)5.0%
Net income growth (TTM)19.7%132% (better)
EPS growth (TTM)19.8%132% (better)
EPS growth, 5Y average10.7% (better)8.2%
Profitability
Gross margin60.1%64.7% (better)
Operating margin27.6% (better)20.3%
Net margin24.5% (better)19.1%
FCF margin20.9%22.3% (better)
Return on equity21.9% (better)20.6%
Return on invested capital29.5% (better)21.3%
Financial health
Debt / equity0.000.38 (better)
Net debt / EBITDA–−0.07
Interest coverage–12.3×
Current ratio3.03 (better)2.02
Altman Z-score15.77 (better)8.01
Piotroski F-score7 (better)6
Dividends and buybacks
Dividend yield1.4%–
Payout ratio38.5%–
Buyback yield–1.2%
Shareholder yield1.4% (better)1.2%
Ownership
Held by institutions57.1%90.6%
Held by insiders17.4%0.72%
Insider net buying, 12 months−$20.0M (better)−$32.5M
Superinvestors holding–2
Short interest, % of float2.1%1.4%

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