LYTS vs. WLDN, LMB, SWIM, GLDD, CINT, MEC, NOA, ORN, CSTE, and SLND
Should you be buying LSI Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LSI Industries include Willdan Group (WLDN), Limbach (LMB), Latham Group (SWIM), Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), CI&T (CINT), Mayville Engineering (MEC), North American Construction Group (NOA), Orion Group (ORN), Caesarstone (CSTE), and Southland (SLND). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Willdan Group (NASDAQ:WLDN) and LSI Industries (NASDAQ:LYTS) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends and community ranking.
In the previous week, LSI Industries had 13 more articles in the media than Willdan Group. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for LSI Industries and 3 mentions for Willdan Group. LSI Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Willdan Group's score of 0.67 indicating that Willdan Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
72.3% of Willdan Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.9% of LSI Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.6% of Willdan Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.3% of LSI Industries shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
LSI Industries has a net margin of 5.97% compared to LSI Industries' net margin of 2.14%. Willdan Group's return on equity of 14.93% beat LSI Industries' return on equity.
Willdan Group has a beta of 1.49, suggesting that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LSI Industries has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Willdan Group currently has a consensus target price of $34.50, suggesting a potential upside of 21.91%. LSI Industries has a consensus target price of $20.33, suggesting a potential upside of 37.67%. Given Willdan Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe LSI Industries is more favorable than Willdan Group.
LSI Industries received 18 more outperform votes than Willdan Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.14% of users gave LSI Industries an outperform vote while only 65.52% of users gave Willdan Group an outperform vote.
LSI Industries has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Willdan Group. LSI Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Willdan Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
LSI Industries beats Willdan Group on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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