NNBR vs. PESI, EML, SSTI, TAYD, TPIC, VTNR, EOSE, MNTX, LAKE, and TWIN
Should you be buying NN stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NN include Perma-Fix Environmental Services (PESI), Eastern (EML), SoundThinking (SSTI), Taylor Devices (TAYD), TPI Composites (TPIC), Vertex Energy (VTNR), Eos Energy Enterprises (EOSE), Manitex International (MNTX), Lakeland Industries (LAKE), and Twin Disc (TWIN). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Perma-Fix Environmental Services (NASDAQ:PESI) and NN (NASDAQ:NNBR) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and valuation.
25.5% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.9% of NN shares are held by institutional investors. 10.1% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.9% of NN shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, NN had 9 more articles in the media than Perma-Fix Environmental Services. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for NN and 8 mentions for Perma-Fix Environmental Services. Perma-Fix Environmental Services' average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat NN's score of 0.34 indicating that NN is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
NN received 137 more outperform votes than Perma-Fix Environmental Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.38% of users gave Perma-Fix Environmental Services an outperform vote while only 51.67% of users gave NN an outperform vote.
NN has a consensus price target of $5.00, suggesting a potential upside of 42.45%. Given Perma-Fix Environmental Services' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe NN is more favorable than Perma-Fix Environmental Services.
Perma-Fix Environmental Services has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NN has a beta of 3.04, meaning that its share price is 204% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Perma-Fix Environmental Services has higher earnings, but lower revenue than NN. Perma-Fix Environmental Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NN, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Perma-Fix Environmental Services has a net margin of -3.20% compared to Perma-Fix Environmental Services' net margin of -10.86%. NN's return on equity of -5.82% beat Perma-Fix Environmental Services' return on equity.
Summary
NN beats Perma-Fix Environmental Services on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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