NEWP vs. FARO, DAKT, MLAB, VPG, COHR, BMI, ITRI, CGNX, OSIS, and GATO
Should you be buying New Pacific Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of New Pacific Metals include FARO Technologies (FARO), Daktronics (DAKT), Mesa Laboratories (MLAB), Vishay Precision Group (VPG), Coherent (COHR), Badger Meter (BMI), Itron (ITRI), Cognex (CGNX), OSI Systems (OSIS), and Gatos Silver (GATO).
New Pacific Metals vs. Its Competitors
FARO Technologies (NASDAQ:FARO) and New Pacific Metals (NASDAQ:NEWP) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends and profitability.
FARO Technologies presently has a consensus price target of $35.50, indicating a potential downside of 16.45%. New Pacific Metals has a consensus price target of $5.00, indicating a potential upside of 226.80%. Given New Pacific Metals' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe New Pacific Metals is more favorable than FARO Technologies.
New Pacific Metals has a net margin of 0.00% compared to FARO Technologies' net margin of -1.87%. FARO Technologies' return on equity of -2.49% beat New Pacific Metals' return on equity.
FARO Technologies received 135 more outperform votes than New Pacific Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.73% of users gave New Pacific Metals an outperform vote while only 63.14% of users gave FARO Technologies an outperform vote.
New Pacific Metals has lower revenue, but higher earnings than FARO Technologies. FARO Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than New Pacific Metals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
FARO Technologies has a beta of 1.63, indicating that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New Pacific Metals has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, FARO Technologies had 5 more articles in the media than New Pacific Metals. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for FARO Technologies and 1 mentions for New Pacific Metals. FARO Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat New Pacific Metals' score of 0.00 indicating that FARO Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
97.2% of FARO Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.0% of New Pacific Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.4% of FARO Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of New Pacific Metals shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
New Pacific Metals beats FARO Technologies on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NASDAQ:NEWP) was last updated on 6/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
