GHM vs. TWIN, PKOH, NWPX, IPX, DM, BOOM, LXFR, QUAD, IPAX, and ALTG
Should you be buying Graham stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Graham include Twin Disc (TWIN), Park-Ohio (PKOH), Northwest Pipe (NWPX), IperionX (IPX), Desktop Metal (DM), DMC Global (BOOM), Luxfer (LXFR), Quad/Graphics (QUAD), Inflection Point Acquisition (IPAX), and Alta Equipment Group (ALTG). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Twin Disc (NASDAQ:TWIN) and Graham (NYSE:GHM) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, risk, dividends, media sentiment and earnings.
Twin Disc has a net margin of 4.13% compared to Twin Disc's net margin of 1.52%. Graham's return on equity of 8.46% beat Twin Disc's return on equity.
In the previous week, Twin Disc had 21 more articles in the media than Graham. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Twin Disc and 3 mentions for Graham. Graham's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Twin Disc's score of 0.20 indicating that Twin Disc is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Twin Disc received 12 more outperform votes than Graham when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.20% of users gave Graham an outperform vote while only 61.82% of users gave Twin Disc an outperform vote.
Twin Disc has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Graham has a beta of 0.58, meaning that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.
65.3% of Twin Disc shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.5% of Graham shares are held by institutional investors. 23.3% of Twin Disc shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of Graham shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Twin Disc has higher revenue and earnings than Graham. Twin Disc is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Graham, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Twin Disc beats Graham on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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