VATE vs. GIFI, TPCS, VMI, ACA, PRLB, SRL, LIVE, GEG, FGF, and HAPP
Should you be buying INNOVATE stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of INNOVATE include Gulf Island Fabrication (GIFI), TechPrecision (TPCS), Valmont Industries (VMI), Arcosa (ACA), Proto Labs (PRLB), Scully Royalty (SRL), Live Ventures (LIVE), Great Elm Group (GEG), Fundamental Global (FGF), and Happiness Development Group (HAPP).
Gulf Island Fabrication (NASDAQ:GIFI) and INNOVATE (NYSE:VATE) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Gulf Island Fabrication has higher earnings, but lower revenue than INNOVATE. Gulf Island Fabrication is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than INNOVATE, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gulf Island Fabrication received 193 more outperform votes than INNOVATE when rated by MarketBeat users.
46.4% of Gulf Island Fabrication shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.3% of INNOVATE shares are held by institutional investors. 20.1% of Gulf Island Fabrication shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 32.3% of INNOVATE shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Gulf Island Fabrication has a beta of 0.46, meaning that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, INNOVATE has a beta of 2.45, meaning that its share price is 145% more volatile than the S&P 500.
INNOVATE has a net margin of -3.07% compared to INNOVATE's net margin of -14.27%. Gulf Island Fabrication's return on equity of 0.00% beat INNOVATE's return on equity.
In the previous week, Gulf Island Fabrication had 1 more articles in the media than INNOVATE. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Gulf Island Fabrication and 0 mentions for INNOVATE. INNOVATE's average media sentiment score of 1.92 beat Gulf Island Fabrication's score of 0.00 indicating that Gulf Island Fabrication is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
INNOVATE beats Gulf Island Fabrication on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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