CSTE vs. ACU, SMID, MTEN, BW, VATE, RECT, TPCS, NWGL, ZKIN, and HIHO
Should you be buying Caesarstone stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Caesarstone include Acme United (ACU), Smith-Midland (SMID), Mingteng International (MTEN), Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises (BW), INNOVATE (VATE), Rectitude (RECT), TechPrecision (TPCS), Nature Wood Group (NWGL), ZK International Group (ZKIN), and Highway (HIHO). These companies are all part of the "construction materials" industry.
Caesarstone vs.
Caesarstone (NASDAQ:CSTE) and Acme United (NYSE:ACU) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, valuation and risk.
Acme United has a net margin of 10.25% compared to Caesarstone's net margin of -14.56%. Acme United's return on equity of 9.70% beat Caesarstone's return on equity.
Caesarstone currently has a consensus target price of $6.00, indicating a potential upside of 190.56%. Given Caesarstone's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Caesarstone is more favorable than Acme United.
33.7% of Caesarstone shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.1% of Acme United shares are owned by institutional investors. 34.1% of Acme United shares are owned by 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.
Caesarstone has a beta of 0.18, suggesting that its stock price is 82% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Acme United has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Acme United has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Caesarstone. Caesarstone is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Acme United, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Caesarstone received 375 more outperform votes than Acme United when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave Acme United an outperform vote while only 65.37% of users gave Caesarstone an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Acme United had 5 more articles in the media than Caesarstone. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Acme United and 0 mentions for Caesarstone. Acme United's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Caesarstone's score of 0.00 indicating that Acme United is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Caesarstone pays an annual dividend of $0.19 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.2%. Acme United pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Caesarstone pays out -14.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Acme United pays out 24.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Acme United has increased its dividend for 20 consecutive years. Caesarstone is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Acme United beats Caesarstone on 16 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:CSTE) was last updated on 6/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
