BOOM vs. MTW, KRT, VTNR, ACCO, CECO, EBF, ALTG, DXPE, CENX, and LXFR
Should you be buying DMC Global stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DMC Global include Manitowoc (MTW), Karat Packaging (KRT), Vertex Energy (VTNR), ACCO Brands (ACCO), CECO Environmental (CECO), Ennis (EBF), Alta Equipment Group (ALTG), DXP Enterprises (DXPE), Century Aluminum (CENX), and Luxfer (LXFR). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Manitowoc (NYSE:MTW) and DMC Global (NASDAQ:BOOM) 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 analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.
Manitowoc has a beta of 2.12, suggesting that its stock price is 112% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DMC Global has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Manitowoc received 142 more outperform votes than DMC Global when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.95% of users gave DMC Global an outperform vote while only 56.92% of users gave Manitowoc an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Manitowoc had 1 more articles in the media than DMC Global. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Manitowoc and 2 mentions for DMC Global. Manitowoc's average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat DMC Global's score of 0.83 indicating that DMC Global is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
DMC Global has a net margin of 4.36% compared to DMC Global's net margin of -4.80%. DMC Global's return on equity of 12.60% beat Manitowoc's return on equity.
77.7% of Manitowoc shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.9% of DMC Global shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Manitowoc shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of DMC Global shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Manitowoc currently has a consensus price target of $17.19, suggesting a potential upside of 16.84%. DMC Global has a consensus price target of $35.00, suggesting a potential upside of 47.00%. Given Manitowoc's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe DMC Global is more favorable than Manitowoc.
DMC Global has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Manitowoc. Manitowoc is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DMC Global, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
DMC Global beats Manitowoc on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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