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IIIN vs. ROCK, APOG, AMWD, NX, LII, MAS, BLDR, OC, AOS, and AAON

Should you be buying Insteel Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Insteel Industries include Gibraltar Industries (ROCK), Apogee Enterprises (APOG), American Woodmark (AMWD), Quanex Building Products (NX), Lennox International (LII), Masco (MAS), Builders FirstSource (BLDR), Owens Corning (OC), A. O. Smith (AOS), and AAON (AAON). These companies are all part of the "building products" industry.

Insteel Industries vs.

Insteel Industries (NASDAQ:IIIN) and Gibraltar Industries (NASDAQ:ROCK) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, valuation and institutional ownership.

Gibraltar Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Insteel Industries. Gibraltar Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Insteel Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Insteel Industries$570.46M1.22$19.31M$1.1630.93
Gibraltar Industries$1.31B1.32$110.53M$4.3513.43

In the previous week, Gibraltar Industries had 7 more articles in the media than Insteel Industries. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Gibraltar Industries and 4 mentions for Insteel Industries. Insteel Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat Gibraltar Industries' score of 1.25 indicating that Insteel Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Insteel Industries
4 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Gibraltar Industries
10 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Gibraltar Industries has a net margin of 10.49% compared to Insteel Industries' net margin of 3.58%. Gibraltar Industries' return on equity of 13.19% beat Insteel Industries' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Insteel Industries3.58% 5.91% 4.93%
Gibraltar Industries 10.49%13.19%9.44%

83.3% of Insteel Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.4% of Gibraltar Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.0% of Insteel Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Gibraltar Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Gibraltar Industries received 81 more outperform votes than Insteel Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.85% of users gave Gibraltar Industries an outperform vote while only 61.93% of users gave Insteel Industries an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Insteel IndustriesOutperform Votes
205
61.93%
Underperform Votes
126
38.07%
Gibraltar IndustriesOutperform Votes
286
64.85%
Underperform Votes
155
35.15%

Insteel Industries has a beta of 0.72, suggesting that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gibraltar Industries has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Gibraltar Industries beats Insteel Industries on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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IIIN vs. The Competition

MetricInsteel IndustriesSteel works, blast furnaces, & rolling & finishing mills IndustryIndustrials SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$696.02M$4.54B$7.66B$8.44B
Dividend Yield0.32%3.28%4.58%4.11%
P/E Ratio36.2215.7923.2319.77
Price / Sales1.220.6490.51119.10
Price / Cash16.766.7826.9434.62
Price / Book2.101.193.984.52
Net Income$19.31M$1.00B$807.24M$248.23M
7 Day Performance-1.98%-1.10%0.78%0.77%
1 Month Performance9.97%4.48%11.12%13.45%
1 Year Performance12.18%-9.11%19.50%7.67%

Insteel Industries Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
IIIN
Insteel Industries
1.8756 of 5 stars
$35.67
-0.8%
N/A+11.4%$692.47M$570.46M36.03960News Coverage
Positive News
ROCK
Gibraltar Industries
2.7849 of 5 stars
$61.94
+5.7%
N/A-17.7%$1.83B$1.31B13.862,140Positive News
Analyst Downgrade
APOG
Apogee Enterprises
4.777 of 5 stars
$42.39
+4.0%
$62.00
+46.3%
-40.5%$907.95M$1.36B9.465,500Positive News
AMWD
American Woodmark
3.9862 of 5 stars
$61.05
+4.1%
$101.00
+65.4%
-38.6%$905.68M$1.76B9.1310,000Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Downgrade
NX
Quanex Building Products
4.8503 of 5 stars
$18.86
+9.4%
$38.00
+101.5%
-46.4%$890.36M$1.44B16.843,880Positive News
LII
Lennox International
3.9225 of 5 stars
$596.03
+3.9%
$577.00
-3.2%
+15.5%$21.15B$5.37B26.4413,200Positive News
MAS
Masco
4.8011 of 5 stars
$69.27
+11.5%
$73.10
+5.5%
-9.9%$14.61B$7.70B18.4219,000Analyst Revision
High Trading Volume
BLDR
Builders FirstSource
4.8466 of 5 stars
$118.03
+6.6%
$167.58
+42.0%
-35.4%$13.04B$16.17B13.0329,000Positive News
OC
Owens Corning
4.8193 of 5 stars
$143.28
+5.0%
$188.55
+31.6%
-24.3%$12.19B$11.49B12.1919,000Positive News
Buyback Announcement
AOS
A. O. Smith
4.1132 of 5 stars
$70.47
+3.2%
$76.17
+8.1%
-21.7%$10.14B$3.80B19.4112,000Positive News
Analyst Revision
AAON
AAON
4.4024 of 5 stars
$104.63
+4.4%
$115.50
+10.4%
+30.9%$8.51B$1.26B46.093,670Insider Trade

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This page (NASDAQ:IIIN) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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