CENX vs. UFPT, POWL, DNOW, NSSC, GIC, HOLI, HLIO, PLUG, KALU, and B
Should you be buying Century Aluminum stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Century Aluminum include UFP Technologies (UFPT), Powell Industries (POWL), DNOW (DNOW), Napco Security Technologies (NSSC), Global Industrial (GIC), Hollysys Automation Technologies (HOLI), Helios Technologies (HLIO), Plug Power (PLUG), Kaiser Aluminum (KALU), and Barnes Group (B). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
UFP Technologies (NASDAQ:UFPT) and Century Aluminum (NASDAQ:CENX) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
UFP Technologies presently has a consensus target price of $238.50, indicating a potential upside of 7.15%. Century Aluminum has a consensus target price of $10.67, indicating a potential downside of 40.67%. Given Century Aluminum's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe UFP Technologies is more favorable than Century Aluminum.
Century Aluminum received 152 more outperform votes than UFP Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.03% of users gave UFP Technologies an outperform vote while only 51.14% of users gave Century Aluminum an outperform vote.
UFP Technologies has a beta of 0.83, indicating that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Century Aluminum has a beta of 2.71, indicating that its stock price is 171% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Century Aluminum had 1 more articles in the media than UFP Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Century Aluminum and 2 mentions for UFP Technologies. Century Aluminum's average media sentiment score of 1.67 beat UFP Technologies' score of 0.92 indicating that UFP Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
UFP Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Century Aluminum. Century Aluminum is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than UFP Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
87.3% of UFP Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.6% of Century Aluminum shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.8% of UFP Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Century Aluminum 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.
UFP Technologies has a net margin of 11.23% compared to UFP Technologies' net margin of -2.05%. Century Aluminum's return on equity of 25.48% beat UFP Technologies' return on equity.
Summary
UFP Technologies beats Century Aluminum on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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