LXU vs. NPK, SPLP, FBYD, VGR, SRL, GEG, VATE, FGF, LRHC, and ALPP
Should you be buying LSB Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LSB Industries include National Presto Industries (NPK), Steel Partners (SPLP), Falcon's Beyond Global (FBYD), Vector Group (VGR), Scully Royalty (SRL), Great Elm Group (GEG), INNOVATE (VATE), Fundamental Global (FGF), La Rosa (LRHC), and Alpine 4 (ALPP). These companies are all part of the "multi-sector conglomerates" sector.
National Presto Industries (NYSE:NPK) and LSB Industries (NYSE:LXU) are both small-cap multi-sector conglomerates companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, valuation and community ranking.
LSB Industries received 108 more outperform votes than National Presto Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.32% of users gave National Presto Industries an outperform vote while only 58.85% of users gave LSB Industries an outperform vote.
National Presto Industries has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LSB Industries has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
LSB Industries has a consensus target price of $10.94, indicating a potential upside of 28.22%. Given National Presto Industries' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe LSB Industries is more favorable than National Presto Industries.
In the previous week, LSB Industries had 10 more articles in the media than National Presto Industries. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for LSB Industries and 1 mentions for National Presto Industries. LSB Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat National Presto Industries' score of 0.21 indicating that National Presto Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
National Presto Industries has higher earnings, but lower revenue than LSB Industries. National Presto Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LSB Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
58.6% of National Presto Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.7% of LSB Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 28.0% of National Presto Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.7% of LSB Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
National Presto Industries has a net margin of 10.14% compared to National Presto Industries' net margin of 3.20%. LSB Industries' return on equity of 10.14% beat National Presto Industries' return on equity.
Summary
National Presto Industries beats LSB Industries on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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