LXFR vs. DM, IRBT, QUAD, TWIN, GHM, IPAX, BOOM, NWPX, IPX, and EML
Should you be buying Luxfer stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Luxfer include Desktop Metal (DM), iRobot (IRBT), Quad/Graphics (QUAD), Twin Disc (TWIN), Graham (GHM), Inflection Point Acquisition (IPAX), DMC Global (BOOM), Northwest Pipe (NWPX), IperionX (IPX), and Eastern (EML). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Luxfer (NYSE:LXFR) and Desktop Metal (NYSE:DM) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
Luxfer has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Desktop Metal has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Desktop Metal received 85 more outperform votes than Luxfer when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.13% of users gave Luxfer an outperform vote while only 57.81% of users gave Desktop Metal an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Desktop Metal had 7 more articles in the media than Luxfer. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Desktop Metal and 4 mentions for Luxfer. Luxfer's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Desktop Metal's score of -0.01 indicating that Luxfer is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Desktop Metal has a consensus target price of $1.25, suggesting a potential upside of 94.83%. Given Desktop Metal's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Desktop Metal is more favorable than Luxfer.
90.8% of Luxfer shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.3% of Desktop Metal shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Luxfer shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.2% of Desktop Metal shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Luxfer has a net margin of 0.08% compared to Desktop Metal's net margin of -170.77%. Luxfer's return on equity of 6.59% beat Desktop Metal's return on equity.
Luxfer has higher revenue and earnings than Desktop Metal.
Summary
Luxfer beats Desktop Metal on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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