APT vs. LAKE, VLD, STRC, IDN, IPWR, PPIH, WRAP, BWEN, TPCS, and ISDR
Should you be buying Alpha Pro Tech stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alpha Pro Tech include Lakeland Industries (LAKE), Velo3D (VLD), Sarcos Technology and Robotics (STRC), Intellicheck (IDN), Ideal Power (IPWR), Perma-Pipe International (PPIH), Wrap Technologies (WRAP), Broadwind (BWEN), TechPrecision (TPCS), and Issuer Direct (ISDR). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Alpha Pro Tech (NYSE:APT) and Lakeland Industries (NASDAQ:LAKE) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, profitability and risk.
Lakeland Industries received 189 more outperform votes than Alpha Pro Tech when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Alpha Pro Tech an outperform vote while only 62.38% of users gave Lakeland Industries an outperform vote.
Alpha Pro Tech has a beta of -0.67, indicating that its share price is 167% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lakeland Industries has a beta of 0.49, indicating that its share price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500.
22.7% of Alpha Pro Tech shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.7% of Lakeland Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.6% of Alpha Pro Tech shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.1% of Lakeland Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Alpha Pro Tech has a net margin of 6.84% compared to Lakeland Industries' net margin of 4.33%. Alpha Pro Tech's return on equity of 6.84% beat Lakeland Industries' return on equity.
Lakeland Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Alpha Pro Tech. Alpha Pro Tech is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lakeland Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lakeland Industries has a consensus price target of $22.00, suggesting a potential upside of 25.64%. Given Lakeland Industries' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Lakeland Industries is more favorable than Alpha Pro Tech.
In the previous week, Lakeland Industries had 4 more articles in the media than Alpha Pro Tech. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Lakeland Industries and 2 mentions for Alpha Pro Tech. Lakeland Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.28 beat Alpha Pro Tech's score of 0.00 indicating that Lakeland Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Lakeland Industries beats Alpha Pro Tech on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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