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IIIN vs. ROCK, APOG, AMWD, NX, LII, BLDR, MAS, 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), Builders FirstSource (BLDR), Masco (MAS), 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 stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, earnings, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends and risk.

In the previous week, Gibraltar Industries had 19 more articles in the media than Insteel Industries. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Gibraltar Industries and 7 mentions for Insteel Industries. Insteel Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Gibraltar Industries' score of 0.99 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
3 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Gibraltar Industries
11 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
10 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

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

Gibraltar Industries received 80 more outperform votes than Insteel Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.07% 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
285
65.07%
Underperform Votes
153
34.93%

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$570.46M1.15$19.31M$1.1629.08
Gibraltar Industries$1.31B1.26$110.53M$4.4712.42

Insteel Industries has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gibraltar Industries has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.

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%

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$654.81M$4.64B$7.21B$7.95B
Dividend Yield0.36%3.38%3.56%4.22%
P/E Ratio34.0715.0021.0018.58
Price / Sales1.150.6181.73103.49
Price / Cash16.766.7826.9034.62
Price / Book1.981.143.754.25
Net Income$19.31M$1.00B$808.20M$248.18M
7 Day Performance1.57%1.33%3.94%1.36%
1 Month Performance27.87%2.67%2.61%3.85%
1 Year Performance6.04%-10.16%15.03%5.37%

Insteel Industries Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
IIIN
Insteel Industries
1.6938 of 5 stars
$33.73
-0.5%
N/A+5.8%$654.81M$570.46M34.07960Positive News
ROCK
Gibraltar Industries
2.2215 of 5 stars
$50.20
-3.1%
N/A-25.9%$1.49B$1.31B11.232,140Earnings Report
News Coverage
APOG
Apogee Enterprises
4.7336 of 5 stars
$44.49
-2.3%
$62.00
+39.4%
-35.8%$976.69M$1.38B9.935,500Earnings Report
Analyst Revision
AMWD
American Woodmark
4.1307 of 5 stars
$54.03
-4.0%
$114.00
+111.0%
-35.9%$801.54M$1.76B8.0810,000Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
NX
Quanex Building Products
4.7846 of 5 stars
$15.53
-4.0%
$38.00
+144.7%
-50.5%$733.16M$1.44B13.873,880
LII
Lennox International
3.9323 of 5 stars
$542.64
-2.4%
$606.15
+11.7%
+17.9%$19.26B$5.34B24.0713,200Analyst Revision
BLDR
Builders FirstSource
4.9015 of 5 stars
$114.26
-2.3%
$186.84
+63.5%
-34.8%$13.00B$16.40B12.6129,000Earnings Report
Analyst Downgrade
News Coverage
Gap Down
MAS
Masco
4.6498 of 5 stars
$60.06
-2.5%
$83.37
+38.8%
-11.5%$12.71B$7.83B15.9719,000Short Interest ↑
OC
Owens Corning
4.9405 of 5 stars
$134.47
-2.4%
$194.58
+44.7%
-13.6%$11.50B$10.98B11.4419,000
AOS
A. O. Smith
4.7725 of 5 stars
$61.74
-2.2%
$76.50
+23.9%
-17.9%$8.89B$3.82B17.0112,000Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
AAON
AAON
4.5182 of 5 stars
$77.92
-5.5%
$115.50
+48.2%
-3.0%$6.36B$1.20B34.333,670News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Up

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This page (NASDAQ:IIIN) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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