Comparing Halma (OTCMKTS:HLMAF) & Resideo Technologies (NYSE:REZI)

Halma (OTCMKTS:HLMAF) and Resideo Technologies (NYSE:REZI) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and risk.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Halma and Resideo Technologies, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Halma	1	2	2	2	2.71
Resideo Technologies	1	1	2	0	2.25

Resideo Technologies has a consensus target price of $49.00, indicating a potential upside of 58.36%. Given Resideo Technologies’ higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Resideo Technologies is more favorable than Halma.

Profitability

This table compares Halma and Resideo Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Halma	N/A	N/A	N/A
Resideo Technologies	-6.71%	16.70%	4.66%

Volatility and Risk

Halma has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Resideo Technologies has a beta of 1.64, indicating that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Halma and Resideo Technologies”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Halma	$2.87 billion	8.26	$378.18 million	N/A	N/A
Resideo Technologies	$7.47 billion	0.63	-$527.00 million	($3.84)	-8.06

Halma has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Resideo Technologies.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

91.7% of Resideo Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Resideo Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Resideo Technologies beats Halma on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Halma

Halma plc, together its subsidiaries, provides technology solutions in the safety, health, and environmental markets in the United States, Mainland Europe, the United Kingdom, the Asia Pacific, Africa, the Middle East, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Safety, Environmental & Analysis, and Medical. The Safety segment provides fire safety, fire detection and fire suppression; safe movement in public, commercial, and industrial spaces; elevator safety; communications in emergencies; control of access in potentially hazardous industrial and commercial environments; electrical safety; and the safe management of pipelines and storage assets solutions. This segment serves shops and restaurants, healthcare facilities, and offices and stadiums; industrial and logistics assets; public spaces and critical infrastructure; and aerospace, and rail and automotive markets. The Environmental & Analysis segment offers optical, optoelectronic, and spectral imaging systems; environmental monitoring, water and waste water analysis and treatment, gas analysis and detection, and optical analysis systems. It serves the optical analysis, water analysis and treatment, gas detection, and environmental monitoring markets. The Medical segment provides critical fluidic components used by medical diagnostics and original equipment manufacturers; components, devices and systems that provide information and analytics to understand patient health and enable providers to make decisions across the continuum of care; technologies and solutions to enable in-vitro diagnostic systems and life-science discoveries and development; and technologies that enable treatment across clinical specialties. This segment serves the life sciences, health assessment and analytics, and therapeutic solutions market. The company was incorporated in 1894 and is headquartered in Amersham, the United Kingdom.

About Resideo Technologies

Resideo Technologies, Inc. develops, manufactures, and sells comfort, energy management, and safety and security solutions to the commercial and residential end markets in the United States, Europe, and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Products and Solutions, and ADI Global Distribution. The Products and Solutions segment provides temperature and humidity control, thermal and combustion solutions, water and indoor air quality solutions, energy products and solutions, water and air solutions, smoke and carbon monoxide detection home safety and fire suppression, security panels, sensors, peripherals, wire and cable, communications devices, video cameras, other home-related lifestyle convenience solutions, cloud infrastructure, installation and maintenance tools, and related software products under the Honeywell Home brand as well as Resideo, Braukmann, First Alert, and BRK brands. The ADI Global Distribution segment engages in the distribution of security, fire, access control, and video products; and participates in the broader related markets of smart home, power, audio, ProAV, networking, communications, data communications, wire and cable, enterprise connectivity, and structured wiring products. The company sells its products and services through a network of professional contractors, distributors, and original equipment manufacturers, as well as retail and online merchants. Resideo Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona.