TRS vs. PKOH, HY, SCSC, MRC, CMCO, GRC, DXPE, LNN, GIC, and CECO
Should you be buying TriMas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TriMas include Park-Ohio (PKOH), Hyster-Yale Materials Handling (HY), ScanSource (SCSC), MRC Global (MRC), Columbus McKinnon (CMCO), Gorman-Rupp (GRC), DXP Enterprises (DXPE), Lindsay (LNN), Global Industrial (GIC), and CECO Environmental (CECO). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
TriMas (NASDAQ:TRS) and Park-Ohio (NASDAQ:PKOH) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, profitability and dividends.
Park-Ohio received 90 more outperform votes than TriMas when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.13% of users gave Park-Ohio an outperform vote while only 54.50% of users gave TriMas an outperform vote.
In the previous week, TriMas had 18 more articles in the media than Park-Ohio. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for TriMas and 4 mentions for Park-Ohio. TriMas' average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Park-Ohio's score of 0.91 indicating that TriMas is being referred to more favorably in the media.
99.4% of TriMas shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.4% of Park-Ohio shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of TriMas shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 33.0% of Park-Ohio shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
TriMas currently has a consensus target price of $40.00, indicating a potential upside of 49.25%. Given TriMas' higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe TriMas is more favorable than Park-Ohio.
TriMas has a net margin of 4.48% compared to Park-Ohio's net margin of 0.70%. Park-Ohio's return on equity of 13.93% beat TriMas' return on equity.
TriMas has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Park-Ohio has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
TriMas has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Park-Ohio. TriMas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Park-Ohio, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
TriMas pays an annual dividend of $0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Park-Ohio pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. TriMas pays out 16.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Park-Ohio pays out 54.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Summary
TriMas beats Park-Ohio on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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