TRS vs. MEC, GEF, KAI, NPO, JBT, ESE, MWA, AIN, KMT, and B
Should you be buying TriMas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TriMas include Mayville Engineering (MEC), Greif (GEF), Kadant (KAI), Enpro (NPO), John Bean Technologies (JBT), ESCO Technologies (ESE), Mueller Water Products (MWA), Albany International (AIN), Kennametal (KMT), and Barnes Group (B).
Mayville Engineering (NYSE:MEC) and TriMas (NASDAQ:TRS) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, profitability, earnings and valuation.
45.4% of Mayville Engineering shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.4% of TriMas shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.4% of Mayville Engineering shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of TriMas shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
TriMas has higher revenue and earnings than Mayville Engineering. TriMas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mayville Engineering, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, TriMas had 1 more articles in the media than Mayville Engineering. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for TriMas and 0 mentions for Mayville Engineering. Mayville Engineering's average media sentiment score of 1.76 beat TriMas' score of 0.00 indicating that TriMas is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
TriMas received 126 more outperform votes than Mayville Engineering when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.21% of users gave Mayville Engineering an outperform vote while only 54.50% of users gave TriMas an outperform vote.
Mayville Engineering has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TriMas has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Mayville Engineering currently has a consensus price target of $16.00, indicating a potential downside of 2.50%. TriMas has a consensus price target of $40.00, indicating a potential upside of 53.14%. Given Mayville Engineering's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe TriMas is more favorable than Mayville Engineering.
TriMas has a net margin of 4.48% compared to TriMas' net margin of 1.40%. Mayville Engineering's return on equity of 9.68% beat TriMas' return on equity.
Summary
TriMas beats Mayville Engineering on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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