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Competitive Comparison
Symbotic vs. Honeywell
A focused, pre-profit warehouse-automation pure-play against the diversified industrial conglomerate whose Intelligrated unit competes directly with it.
Metric
Symbotic (SYM)
Honeywell International (HON)
PEG ratio
280.13 (tiny earnings base)
6.79
EBITDA
Q2 FY26 adj. EBITDA $78M
$8.87B (TTM)
Market cap
n/a
$71.74B
Market cap, P/E, PEG, EV/EBITDA, and capex sourced via public filings and financial-data aggregators (GuruFocus, StockAnalysis, company earnings releases), as of July 2026. PEG ratio sourced primarily from GuruFocus where available; different providers use different growth-rate assumptions, so figures elsewhere for the same stock can vary by several multiples. Gold-highlighted column(s) indicate the name(s) actually held in this book.
Why Symbotic, not Honeywell
Honeywell's Intelligrated division is a direct warehouse-automation competitor to Symbotic, but it's one segment inside a much larger, highly diversified industrial conglomerate (aerospace, building technologies, industrial automation broadly) — Honeywell's own automation results don't show up as a clean, isolated number the way Symbotic's do. I hold Symbotic specifically as a focused bet on warehouse-automation adoption accelerating as labor costs rise, working through a large deployment backlog toward profitability; Symbotic's extreme PEG ratio reflects a tiny current earnings base against real revenue growth, not a claim that it's fundamentally more expensive than Honeywell in a comparable sense.