Analyzing Mirion Technologies (NYSE:MIR) & Vontier (NYSE:VNT)

Mirion Technologies (NYSE:MIR) and Vontier (NYSE:VNT) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Mirion Technologies and Vontier, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Mirion Technologies	0	0	5	2	3.29
Vontier	0	2	6	1	2.89

Mirion Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $23.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.25%. Vontier has a consensus price target of $47.50, indicating a potential upside of 10.77%. Given Vontier’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Vontier is more favorable than Mirion Technologies.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Mirion Technologies and Vontier”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Mirion Technologies	$860.80 million	6.17	-$36.10 million	$0.03	757.17
Vontier	$3.04 billion	2.07	$422.20 million	$2.63	16.30

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

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Mirion Technologies	1.12%	6.57%	3.83%
Vontier	12.99%	41.96%	10.73%

Risk & Volatility

Mirion Technologies has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vontier has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

78.5% of Mirion Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.8% of Vontier shares are held by institutional investors. 6.3% of Mirion Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Vontier shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Vontier beats Mirion Technologies on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Mirion Technologies

Mirion Technologies, Inc. provides radiation detection, measurement, analysis, and monitoring products and services in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Finland, China, Belgium, Netherlands, Estonia, South Korea, and Japan. It operates through two segments, Medical and Technologies. The Medical segment offers radiation oncology quality assurance and dosimetry solutions; patient safety solutions for diagnostic imaging and radiation therapy centers; radiation therapy quality assurance solutions for calibrating and verifying imaging and treatment accuracy; and radionuclide therapy products for nuclear medicine applications, such as shielding, product handling, medical imaging furniture, and rehabilitation products. This segment supports applications in medical diagnostics, cancer treatment, practitioner safety, and rehabilitation. The Technologies segment focuses on addressing critical radiation safety, measurement, and analysis applications; and provides personal radiation detection, identification equipment, and analysis tools. The company's products and solutions also include nuclear medicines, dosimeters, contamination and clearance monitors, reactor instrumentation and control equipment and systems, medical and industrial imaging systems and related accessories, alpha spectroscopy instruments, alpha/beta counting instruments, and gamma spectroscopy detector systems; and electrical penetration, cancer diagnostics, software, and other services. It serves hospitals, clinics and urgent care facilities, dental and veterinary offices, radiation treatment facilities, OEMs for radiation therapy, laboratories, military organizations, government agencies, industrial companies, power and utility companies, reactor design firms, and NPPs. The company was formerly known as Global Monitoring Systems, Inc. and changed its name to Mirion Technologies, Inc. in January 2006. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

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.