PKOH vs. MEC, TRS, GHM, IPX, NWPX, BOOM, DM, LXFR, QUAD, and TWIN
Should you be buying Park-Ohio stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Park-Ohio include Mayville Engineering (MEC), TriMas (TRS), Graham (GHM), IperionX (IPX), Northwest Pipe (NWPX), DMC Global (BOOM), Desktop Metal (DM), Luxfer (LXFR), Quad/Graphics (QUAD), and Twin Disc (TWIN).
Park-Ohio (NASDAQ:PKOH) and Mayville Engineering (NYSE:MEC) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Mayville Engineering has a net margin of 1.33% compared to Park-Ohio's net margin of 0.47%. Park-Ohio's return on equity of 13.45% beat Mayville Engineering's return on equity.
Mayville Engineering has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Park-Ohio. Mayville Engineering is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Park-Ohio, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Park-Ohio received 217 more outperform votes than Mayville Engineering when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.13% of users gave Park-Ohio an outperform vote while only 55.92% of users gave Mayville Engineering an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Park-Ohio had 8 more articles in the media than Mayville Engineering. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Park-Ohio and 1 mentions for Mayville Engineering. Park-Ohio's average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat Mayville Engineering's score of 0.00 indicating that Park-Ohio is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Park-Ohio has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mayville Engineering has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
51.4% of Park-Ohio shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.4% of Mayville Engineering shares are owned by institutional investors. 35.6% of Park-Ohio shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.4% of Mayville Engineering shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Mayville Engineering has a consensus price target of $17.33, indicating a potential upside of 23.28%. Given Mayville Engineering's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Mayville Engineering is more favorable than Park-Ohio.
Summary
Park-Ohio beats Mayville Engineering on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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