CECO Environmental (CECO) Competitors

Limbach (NASDAQ:LMB) and CECO Environmental (NASDAQ:CECO) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations and earnings.

Do analysts prefer LMB or CECO?

Limbach presently has a consensus price target of $39.00, indicating a potential downside of 32.04%. CECO Environmental has a consensus price target of $27.40, indicating a potential upside of 17.24%. Given Limbach's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe CECO Environmental is more favorable than Limbach.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Limbach	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
CECO Environmental	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer LMB or CECO?

Limbach received 199 more outperform votes than CECO Environmental when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.68% of users gave CECO Environmental an outperform vote while only 55.76% of users gave Limbach an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Limbach	Outperform Votes 213 55.76%	Underperform Votes 169 44.24%
CECO Environmental	Outperform Votes 14 73.68%	Underperform Votes 5 26.32%

Which has preferable valuation & earnings, LMB or CECO?

Limbach has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CECO Environmental. Limbach is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CECO Environmental, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Limbach	$516.35M	1.24	$20.75M	$2.15	26.69
CECO Environmental	$544.84M	1.50	$12.91M	$0.35	66.77

Does the media prefer LMB or CECO?

In the previous week, Limbach and Limbach both had 2 articles in the media. Limbach's average media sentiment score of 1.78 beat CECO Environmental's score of 1.41 indicating that CECO Environmental is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Limbach	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
CECO Environmental	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of LMB or CECO?

55.9% of Limbach shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.1% of CECO Environmental shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.2% of Limbach shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.9% of CECO Environmental shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more risk and volatility, LMB or CECO?

Limbach has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CECO Environmental has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is LMB or CECO more profitable?

Limbach has a net margin of 4.93% compared to Limbach's net margin of 2.23%. CECO Environmental's return on equity of 21.75% beat Limbach's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Limbach	4.93%	21.75%	8.85%
CECO Environmental	2.23%	11.57%	4.54%

Summary

CECO Environmental beats Limbach on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.