NC vs. IRBT, WHR, HELE, AMR, ARCH, BTU, ARLP, NRP, SBR, and SXC
Should you be buying NACCO Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NACCO Industries include iRobot (IRBT), Whirlpool (WHR), Helen of Troy (HELE), Alpha Metallurgical Resources (AMR), Arch Resources (ARCH), Peabody Energy (BTU), Alliance Resource Partners (ARLP), Natural Resource Partners (NRP), Sabine Royalty Trust (SBR), and SunCoke Energy (SXC).
NACCO Industries (NYSE:NC) and iRobot (NASDAQ:IRBT) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
NACCO Industries has higher earnings, but lower revenue than iRobot. NACCO Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than iRobot, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
iRobot has a consensus target price of $13.00, indicating a potential upside of 27.20%. Given iRobot's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe iRobot is more favorable than NACCO Industries.
NACCO Industries has a net margin of -18.68% compared to iRobot's net margin of -24.42%. NACCO Industries' return on equity of 2.79% beat iRobot's return on equity.
49.1% of NACCO Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.4% of iRobot shares are held by institutional investors. 41.3% of NACCO Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of iRobot shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, iRobot had 8 more articles in the media than NACCO Industries. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for iRobot and 0 mentions for NACCO Industries. iRobot's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat NACCO Industries' score of 0.00 indicating that iRobot is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
iRobot received 362 more outperform votes than NACCO Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.19% of users gave iRobot an outperform vote while only 63.87% of users gave NACCO Industries an outperform vote.
NACCO Industries has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, iRobot has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
iRobot beats NACCO Industries on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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