CECO vs. WHD, WFRD, HAYW, ATS, HSAI, EPAC, SEI, DNOW, FLOC, and ACMR
Should you be buying CECO Environmental stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CECO Environmental include Cactus (WHD), Weatherford International (WFRD), Hayward (HAYW), ATS (ATS), Hesai Group (HSAI), Enerpac Tool Group (EPAC), Solaris Energy Infrastructure (SEI), DNOW (DNOW), Flowco (FLOC), and ACM Research (ACMR). These companies are all part of the "machinery" industry.
CECO Environmental vs. Its Competitors
Cactus (NYSE:WHD) and CECO Environmental (NASDAQ:CECO) are both energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and profitability.
Cactus has higher revenue and earnings than CECO Environmental. Cactus is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CECO Environmental, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cactus currently has a consensus target price of $52.50, suggesting a potential upside of 13.83%. CECO Environmental has a consensus target price of $36.00, suggesting a potential upside of 29.17%. Given CECO Environmental's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe CECO Environmental is more favorable than Cactus.
Cactus has a net margin of 16.57% compared to CECO Environmental's net margin of 2.16%. Cactus' return on equity of 20.24% beat CECO Environmental's return on equity.
In the previous week, Cactus had 1 more articles in the media than CECO Environmental. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Cactus and 3 mentions for CECO Environmental. Cactus' average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat CECO Environmental's score of 0.93 indicating that Cactus is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Cactus received 338 more outperform votes than CECO Environmental when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 79.41% of users gave CECO Environmental an outperform vote while only 62.39% of users gave Cactus an outperform vote.
85.1% of Cactus shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.1% of CECO Environmental shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.8% of Cactus shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.4% of CECO Environmental shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Cactus has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CECO Environmental has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Cactus beats CECO Environmental on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:CECO) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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