NWPX vs. ACNT, IPX, PKOH, GHM, BOOM, DM, LXFR, QUAD, ALTG, and CIX
Should you be buying Northwest Pipe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Northwest Pipe include Ascent Industries (ACNT), IperionX (IPX), Park-Ohio (PKOH), Graham (GHM), DMC Global (BOOM), Desktop Metal (DM), Luxfer (LXFR), Quad/Graphics (QUAD), Alta Equipment Group (ALTG), and CompX International (CIX). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Ascent Industries (NASDAQ:ACNT) and Northwest Pipe (NASDAQ:NWPX) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk and analyst recommendations.
Ascent Industries has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Northwest Pipe has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Northwest Pipe has a net margin of 4.74% compared to Northwest Pipe's net margin of -11.07%. Ascent Industries' return on equity of 6.36% beat Northwest Pipe's return on equity.
26.1% of Ascent Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.6% of Northwest Pipe shares are held by institutional investors. 12.2% of Ascent Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Northwest Pipe 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.
Northwest Pipe received 275 more outperform votes than Ascent Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Ascent Industries an outperform vote while only 57.98% of users gave Northwest Pipe an outperform vote.
Northwest Pipe has higher revenue and earnings than Ascent Industries. Ascent Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Northwest Pipe, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Northwest Pipe had 6 more articles in the media than Ascent Industries. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Northwest Pipe and 1 mentions for Ascent Industries. Ascent Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat Northwest Pipe's score of 0.00 indicating that Northwest Pipe is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ascent Industries presently has a consensus price target of $20.00, indicating a potential upside of 97.04%. Northwest Pipe has a consensus price target of $40.00, indicating a potential upside of 26.46%. Given Northwest Pipe's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Ascent Industries is more favorable than Northwest Pipe.
Summary
Northwest Pipe beats Ascent Industries on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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