LMB vs. BBCP, MTRX, AGX, GLDD, LYTS, CINT, WLDN, NOA, SWIM, and MEC
Should you be buying Limbach stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Limbach include Concrete Pumping (BBCP), Matrix Service (MTRX), Argan (AGX), Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), LSI Industries (LYTS), CI&T (CINT), Willdan Group (WLDN), North American Construction Group (NOA), Latham Group (SWIM), and Mayville Engineering (MEC).
Limbach (NASDAQ:LMB) and Concrete Pumping (NASDAQ:BBCP) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.
Limbach presently has a consensus target price of $39.00, indicating a potential downside of 12.26%. Concrete Pumping has a consensus target price of $8.50, indicating a potential upside of 24.82%. Given Concrete Pumping's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Concrete Pumping is more favorable than Limbach.
Limbach received 92 more outperform votes than Concrete Pumping when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.08% of users gave Concrete Pumping an outperform vote while only 55.76% of users gave Limbach an outperform vote.
55.9% of Limbach shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.2% of Concrete Pumping shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.5% of Limbach shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 27.4% of Concrete Pumping shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Concrete Pumping has a net margin of 4.81% compared to Limbach's net margin of 4.02%. Limbach's return on equity of 18.87% beat Concrete Pumping's return on equity.
Limbach has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Concrete Pumping has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Limbach had 1 more articles in the media than Concrete Pumping. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Limbach and 3 mentions for Concrete Pumping. Limbach's average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat Concrete Pumping's score of 0.90 indicating that Limbach is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Concrete Pumping has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Limbach. Concrete Pumping is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Limbach, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Limbach beats Concrete Pumping on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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