NOA vs. CINT, GLDD, LMB, LYTS, TPC, WLDN, SWIM, AGX, LOMA, and MEC
Should you be buying North American Construction Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of North American Construction Group include CI&T (CINT), Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), Limbach (LMB), LSI Industries (LYTS), Tutor Perini (TPC), Willdan Group (WLDN), Latham Group (SWIM), Argan (AGX), Loma Negra Compañía Industrial Argentina Sociedad Anónima (LOMA), and Mayville Engineering (MEC). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
North American Construction Group (NYSE:NOA) and CI&T (NYSE:CINT) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, risk and profitability.
North American Construction Group currently has a consensus target price of $39.00, indicating a potential upside of 90.52%. CI&T has a consensus target price of $5.38, indicating a potential upside of 38.89%. Given North American Construction Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe North American Construction Group is more favorable than CI&T.
North American Construction Group has higher revenue and earnings than CI&T. North American Construction Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CI&T, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CI&T has a net margin of 7.11% compared to North American Construction Group's net margin of 5.21%. North American Construction Group's return on equity of 19.48% beat CI&T's return on equity.
North American Construction Group has a beta of 1.52, suggesting that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CI&T has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, North American Construction Group had 10 more articles in the media than CI&T. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for North American Construction Group and 1 mentions for CI&T. CI&T's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat North American Construction Group's score of -0.27 indicating that CI&T is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
75.0% of North American Construction Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.5% of CI&T shares are held by institutional investors. 9.7% of North American Construction Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
North American Construction Group received 367 more outperform votes than CI&T when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.69% of users gave North American Construction Group an outperform vote while only 35.71% of users gave CI&T an outperform vote.
Summary
North American Construction Group beats CI&T on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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