HURC vs. SYPR, GHM, FSTR, PLL, BOOM, EML, NNBR, AP, TBLT, and MLAB
Should you be buying Hurco Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hurco Companies include Sypris Solutions (SYPR), Graham (GHM), L.B. Foster (FSTR), Piedmont Lithium (PLL), DMC Global (BOOM), Eastern (EML), NN (NNBR), Ampco-Pittsburgh (AP), ToughBuilt Industries (TBLT), and Mesa Laboratories (MLAB).
Hurco Companies (NASDAQ:HURC) and Sypris Solutions (NASDAQ:SYPR) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends and risk.
Sypris Solutions received 4 more outperform votes than Hurco Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.27% of users gave Hurco Companies an outperform vote while only 42.12% of users gave Sypris Solutions an outperform vote.
Hurco Companies has a beta of 0.44, meaning that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sypris Solutions has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Hurco Companies has a net margin of 0.65% compared to Sypris Solutions' net margin of -2.61%. Hurco Companies' return on equity of 0.63% beat Sypris Solutions' return on equity.
Hurco Companies has higher revenue and earnings than Sypris Solutions. Sypris Solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hurco Companies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
74.4% of Hurco Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.7% of Sypris Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.2% of Hurco Companies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 47.4% of Sypris Solutions shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Hurco Companies and Hurco Companies both had 3 articles in the media. Hurco Companies' average media sentiment score of 1.58 beat Sypris Solutions' score of 1.41 indicating that Hurco Companies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Hurco Companies beats Sypris Solutions on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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