GLDD vs. ORN, SLND, CINT, NOA, LMB, LYTS, SWIM, WLDN, TPC, and MEC
Should you be buying Great Lakes Dredge & Dock stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock include Orion Group (ORN), Southland (SLND), CI&T (CINT), North American Construction Group (NOA), Limbach (LMB), LSI Industries (LYTS), Latham Group (SWIM), Willdan Group (WLDN), Tutor Perini (TPC), and Mayville Engineering (MEC). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (NASDAQ:GLDD) and Orion Group (NYSE:ORN) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation and risk.
In the previous week, Orion Group had 3 more articles in the media than Great Lakes Dredge & Dock. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Orion Group and 6 mentions for Great Lakes Dredge & Dock. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Orion Group's score of 0.18 indicating that Great Lakes Dredge & Dock is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Orion Group received 184 more outperform votes than Great Lakes Dredge & Dock when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.90% of users gave Orion Group an outperform vote while only 59.66% of users gave Great Lakes Dredge & Dock an outperform vote.
89.1% of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.3% of Orion Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.3% of Orion Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Orion Group. Orion Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Great Lakes Dredge & Dock, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Orion Group has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Orion Group has a consensus price target of $9.50, indicating a potential upside of 36.69%. Given Orion Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Orion Group is more favorable than Great Lakes Dredge & Dock.
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has a net margin of 2.36% compared to Orion Group's net margin of -2.51%. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock's return on equity of 2.56% beat Orion Group's return on equity.
Summary
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock beats Orion Group on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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