DSWL vs. AFI, MYE, NWL, LWLG, SWIM, YHGJ, NEWH, FORD, ENTG, and ATR
Should you be buying Deswell Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Deswell Industries include Armstrong Flooring (AFI), Myers Industries (MYE), Newell Brands (NWL), Lightwave Logic (LWLG), Latham Group (SWIM), Yunhong Green CTI (YHGJ), NewHydrogen (NEWH), Forward Industries (FORD), Entegris (ENTG), and AptarGroup (ATR).
Deswell Industries (NASDAQ:DSWL) and Armstrong Flooring (NYSE:AFI) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment and valuation.
50.6% of Armstrong Flooring shares are held by institutional investors. 39.0% of Deswell Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Armstrong Flooring shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Deswell Industries has a beta of 0.51, meaning that its stock price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Armstrong Flooring has a beta of 2.18, meaning that its stock price is 118% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Armstrong Flooring received 50 more outperform votes than Deswell Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.72% of users gave Deswell Industries an outperform vote while only 50.41% of users gave Armstrong Flooring an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Armstrong Flooring had 7 more articles in the media than Deswell Industries. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Armstrong Flooring and 2 mentions for Deswell Industries. Deswell Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Armstrong Flooring's score of 0.00 indicating that Deswell Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Deswell Industries has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Armstrong Flooring's net margin of -8.16%. Deswell Industries' return on equity of 0.00% beat Armstrong Flooring's return on equity.
Deswell Industries has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Armstrong Flooring.
Summary
Deswell Industries beats Armstrong Flooring on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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