CSTE vs. SLND, NWGL, ORN, SMID, MEC, SWIM, GLT, CHCI, WLDN, and LYTS
Should you be buying Caesarstone stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Caesarstone include Southland (SLND), Nature Wood Group (NWGL), Orion Group (ORN), Smith-Midland (SMID), Mayville Engineering (MEC), Latham Group (SWIM), Glatfelter (GLT), Comstock Holding Companies (CHCI), Willdan Group (WLDN), and LSI Industries (LYTS). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Caesarstone (NASDAQ:CSTE) and Southland (NASDAQ:SLND) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Caesarstone presently has a consensus target price of $5.50, indicating a potential downside of 6.62%. Southland has a consensus target price of $7.50, indicating a potential upside of 65.93%. Given Southland's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Southland is more favorable than Caesarstone.
Caesarstone received 376 more outperform votes than Southland when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.02% of users gave Caesarstone an outperform vote while only 25.00% of users gave Southland an outperform vote.
Southland has a net margin of -1.66% compared to Caesarstone's net margin of -19.05%. Caesarstone's return on equity of -12.71% beat Southland's return on equity.
33.7% of Caesarstone shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.9% of Southland shares are owned by institutional investors. 79.0% of Southland shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Caesarstone had 5 more articles in the media than Southland. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Caesarstone and 0 mentions for Southland. Caesarstone's average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat Southland's score of 0.00 indicating that Caesarstone is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Caesarstone has a beta of 0.4, suggesting that its stock price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Southland has a beta of -0.27, suggesting that its stock price is 127% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Southland has higher revenue and earnings than Caesarstone. Southland is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Caesarstone, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Caesarstone beats Southland on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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