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Is COHERENT CORP (COHR) Outperforming Other Business Services Stocks This Year?

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The Business Services group has plenty of great stocks, but investors should always be looking for companies that are outperforming their peers. Is Coherent (COHR - Free Report) one of those stocks right now? Let's take a closer look at the stock's year-to-date performance to find out.

Coherent is one of 245 companies in the Business Services group. The Business Services group currently sits at #8 within the Zacks Sector Rank. The Zacks Sector Rank includes 16 different groups and is listed in order from best to worst in terms of the average Zacks Rank of the individual companies within each of these sectors.

The Zacks Rank is a proven system that emphasizes earnings estimates and estimate revisions, highlighting a variety of stocks that are displaying the right characteristics to beat the market over the next one to three months. Coherent is currently sporting a Zacks Rank of #2 (Buy).

Over the past 90 days, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for COHR's full-year earnings has moved 13.3% higher. This shows that analyst sentiment has improved and the company's earnings outlook is stronger.

According to our latest data, COHR has moved about 57.1% on a year-to-date basis. Meanwhile, the Business Services sector has returned an average of -12.1% on a year-to-date basis. This means that Coherent is outperforming the sector as a whole this year.

Ingram Micro (INGM - Free Report) is another Business Services stock that has outperformed the sector so far this year. Since the beginning of the year, the stock has returned 32.5%.

The consensus estimate for Ingram Micro's current year EPS has increased 3.6% over the past three months. The stock currently has a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).

Looking more specifically, Coherent belongs to the Technology Services industry, which includes 123 individual stocks and currently sits at #152 in the Zacks Industry Rank. This group has lost an average of 16.9% so far this year, so COHR is performing better in this area. Ingram Micro is also part of the same industry.

Going forward, investors interested in Business Services stocks should continue to pay close attention to Coherent and Ingram Micro as they could maintain their solid performance.

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