SWIM vs. BBCP, MEC, WLDN, ORN, LYTS, CSTE, SLND, GLDD, SMID, and LMB
Should you be buying Latham Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Latham Group include Concrete Pumping (BBCP), Mayville Engineering (MEC), Willdan Group (WLDN), Orion Group (ORN), LSI Industries (LYTS), Caesarstone (CSTE), Southland (SLND), Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), Smith-Midland (SMID), and Limbach (LMB).
Latham Group (NASDAQ:SWIM) and Concrete Pumping (NASDAQ:BBCP) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership and risk.
Latham Group currently has a consensus price target of $3.20, suggesting a potential downside of 15.57%. Concrete Pumping has a consensus price target of $8.50, suggesting a potential upside of 26.49%. Given Concrete Pumping's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Concrete Pumping is more favorable than Latham Group.
Latham Group has a beta of 1.67, meaning that its stock price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Concrete Pumping has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
84.0% of Latham Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.2% of Concrete Pumping shares are held by institutional investors. 7.6% of Latham Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 27.4% of Concrete Pumping shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Concrete Pumping has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Latham Group. Latham Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Concrete Pumping, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Concrete Pumping received 89 more outperform votes than Latham Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.08% of users gave Concrete Pumping an outperform vote while only 37.65% of users gave Latham Group an outperform vote.
Concrete Pumping has a net margin of 4.81% compared to Latham Group's net margin of -0.42%. Concrete Pumping's return on equity of 7.76% beat Latham Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Latham Group had 10 more articles in the media than Concrete Pumping. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Latham Group and 0 mentions for Concrete Pumping. Latham Group's average media sentiment score of 0.48 beat Concrete Pumping's score of 0.00 indicating that Latham Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Concrete Pumping beats Latham Group on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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