EML vs. LCUT, SCX, CIX, IPAX, NNBR, TAYD, SSTI, TWIN, QUAD, and EOSE
Should you be buying Eastern stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eastern include Lifetime Brands (LCUT), L.S. Starrett (SCX), CompX International (CIX), Inflection Point Acquisition (IPAX), NN (NNBR), Taylor Devices (TAYD), SoundThinking (SSTI), Twin Disc (TWIN), Quad/Graphics (QUAD), and Eos Energy Enterprises (EOSE).
Eastern (NASDAQ:EML) and Lifetime Brands (NASDAQ:LCUT) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, profitability and earnings.
Eastern has a net margin of 3.14% compared to Lifetime Brands' net margin of -1.23%. Eastern's return on equity of 8.80% beat Lifetime Brands' return on equity.
Eastern has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Lifetime Brands. Lifetime Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eastern, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Eastern has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lifetime Brands has a beta of 1.38, suggesting that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lifetime Brands has a consensus target price of $11.25, indicating a potential upside of 14.45%. Given Lifetime Brands' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Lifetime Brands is more favorable than Eastern.
77.0% of Eastern shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.6% of Lifetime Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.0% of Eastern shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 43.3% of Lifetime Brands shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Eastern pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Lifetime Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Eastern pays out 32.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lifetime Brands pays out -43.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Lifetime Brands is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Eastern had 5 more articles in the media than Lifetime Brands. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Eastern and 3 mentions for Lifetime Brands. Eastern's average media sentiment score of 0.14 beat Lifetime Brands' score of -0.03 indicating that Eastern is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lifetime Brands received 51 more outperform votes than Eastern when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 79.82% of users gave Eastern an outperform vote while only 65.43% of users gave Lifetime Brands an outperform vote.
Summary
Eastern beats Lifetime Brands on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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