SLND vs. ORN, MAPS, SES, GLDD, CSTE, SMID, MEC, GLT, CHCI, and WLDN
Should you be buying Southland stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Southland include Orion Group (ORN), WM Technology (MAPS), SES AI (SES), Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), Caesarstone (CSTE), Smith-Midland (SMID), Mayville Engineering (MEC), Glatfelter (GLT), Comstock Holding Companies (CHCI), and Willdan Group (WLDN).
Southland (NASDAQ:SLND) and Orion Group (NYSE:ORN) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, risk, community ranking and media sentiment.
2.9% of Southland shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.3% of Orion Group shares are held by institutional investors. 79.0% of Southland shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.3% of Orion Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Orion Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Southland. Orion Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Southland, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Orion Group received 468 more outperform votes than Southland when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.87% of users gave Orion Group an outperform vote while only 25.00% of users gave Southland an outperform vote.
Southland presently has a consensus price target of $7.50, indicating a potential upside of 40.19%. Orion Group has a consensus price target of $11.75, indicating a potential upside of 26.21%. Given Southland's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Southland is more favorable than Orion Group.
Southland has a net margin of -1.28% compared to Orion Group's net margin of -1.59%. Orion Group's return on equity of -4.14% beat Southland's return on equity.
Southland has a beta of 0.13, indicating that its stock price is 87% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Orion Group has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Orion Group had 1 more articles in the media than Southland. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Orion Group and 2 mentions for Southland. Orion Group's average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat Southland's score of 0.30 indicating that Orion Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Orion Group beats Southland on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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