BOOM vs. SPLP, GRC, PRLB, ERII, OFLX, FSTR, GHM, PLL, EML, and NNBR
Should you be buying DMC Global stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DMC Global include Steel Partners (SPLP), Gorman-Rupp (GRC), Proto Labs (PRLB), Energy Recovery (ERII), Omega Flex (OFLX), L.B. Foster (FSTR), Graham (GHM), Piedmont Lithium (PLL), Eastern (EML), and NN (NNBR).
DMC Global (NASDAQ:BOOM) and Steel Partners (NYSE:SPLP) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
DMC Global currently has a consensus target price of $24.00, suggesting a potential upside of 95.60%. Given DMC Global's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe DMC Global is more favorable than Steel Partners.
DMC Global received 92 more outperform votes than Steel Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 74.04% of users gave Steel Partners an outperform vote while only 63.79% of users gave DMC Global an outperform vote.
Steel Partners has a net margin of 8.27% compared to DMC Global's net margin of 3.61%. Steel Partners' return on equity of 16.61% beat DMC Global's return on equity.
Steel Partners has higher revenue and earnings than DMC Global. Steel Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DMC Global, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
77.6% of DMC Global shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.8% of Steel Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 2.8% of DMC Global shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 79.2% of Steel Partners shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Steel Partners had 3 more articles in the media than DMC Global. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Steel Partners and 1 mentions for DMC Global. Steel Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat DMC Global's score of 0.00 indicating that Steel Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
DMC Global has a beta of 1.59, meaning that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Steel Partners has a beta of 1.34, meaning that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Steel Partners beats DMC Global on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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