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NASDAQ:NWPX

Northwest Pipe (NWPX) Competitors

$30.78
+0.67 (+2.23%)
(As of 09/22/2023 ET)
Compare
Today's Range
$30.04
$30.89
50-Day Range
$30.11
$33.48
52-Week Range
$25.58
$40.60
Volume
35,451 shs
Average Volume
45,873 shs
Market Capitalization
$308.11 million
P/E Ratio
11.19
Dividend Yield
N/A
Price Target
$48.50

NWPX vs. ACNT, TSE, EOSE, VLD, LXFR, QUAD, MKFG, PKOH, SSTI, and CIX

Should you be buying Northwest Pipe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Northwest Pipe include Ascent Industries (ACNT), Trinseo (TSE), Eos Energy Enterprises (EOSE), Velo3D (VLD), Luxfer (LXFR), Quad/Graphics (QUAD), Markforged (MKFG), Park-Ohio (PKOH), SoundThinking (SSTI), and CompX International (CIX). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.

Northwest Pipe vs.

Ascent Industries (NASDAQ:ACNT) and Northwest Pipe (NASDAQ:NWPX) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Northwest Pipe has a net margin of 6.23% compared to Northwest Pipe's net margin of -5.87%. Ascent Industries' return on equity of 9.04% beat Northwest Pipe's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Ascent Industries-5.87% -6.40% -3.10%
Northwest Pipe 6.23%9.04%4.87%

Ascent Industries currently has a consensus price target of $20.00, indicating a potential upside of 127.27%. Northwest Pipe has a consensus price target of $48.50, indicating a potential upside of 57.57%. Given Northwest Pipe's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Ascent Industries is more favorable than Northwest Pipe.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Ascent Industries
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Northwest Pipe
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Ascent Industries has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Northwest Pipe has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Ascent Industries had 1 more articles in the media than Northwest Pipe. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Ascent Industries and 2 mentions for Northwest Pipe. Northwest Pipe's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Ascent Industries' score of 0.34 indicating that Ascent Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Ascent Industries
1 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Northwest Pipe
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Ascent Industries$414.15M0.22$22.07M-$1.88-4.68
Northwest Pipe$457.67M0.67$31.15M$2.7511.19

24.7% of Ascent Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.5% of Northwest Pipe shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.2% of Ascent Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Northwest Pipe shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Northwest Pipe received 273 more outperform votes than Ascent Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Ascent Industries an outperform vote while only 58.17% of users gave Northwest Pipe an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Ascent IndustriesOutperform Votes
1
100.00%
Underperform Votes
No Votes
Northwest PipeOutperform Votes
274
58.17%
Underperform Votes
197
41.83%

Summary

Northwest Pipe beats Ascent Industries on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.


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Media Sentiment Over Time

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NWPX vs. The Competition

MetricNorthwest PipeSteel pipe & tubes IndustryIndustrial SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$308.11M$1.49B$6.61B$6.27B
Dividend YieldN/AN/A2.17%6.48%
P/E Ratio11.1912.5817.7612.63
Price / Sales0.670.624.3155.35
Price / Cash5.987.1415.63102.96
Price / Book0.962.123.254.84
Net Income$31.15M$58.12M$325.16M$186.05M
7 Day Performance-1.72%-1.11%-2.84%-2.52%
1 Month Performance-4.56%-2.48%-3.50%-3.77%
1 Year Performance8.11%2.32%12.30%3.69%

Northwest Pipe Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ACNT
Ascent Industries
2.3888 of 5 stars
$8.50
flat
$20.00
+135.3%
-42.3%$86.36M$414.15M-4.52698Positive News
TSE
Trinseo
2.0191 of 5 stars
$8.64
-0.5%
$21.20
+145.5%
-62.8%$303.87M$4.97B-0.343,400Dividend Announcement
News Coverage
Positive News
EOSE
Eos Energy Enterprises
2.6285 of 5 stars
$2.40
+5.3%
$9.90
+312.5%
+18.8%$321.58M$17.92M-0.64333Positive News
High Trading Volume
VLD
Velo3D
1.7834 of 5 stars
$1.49
-2.6%
$3.85
+158.4%
-67.5%$293.16M$80.76M-2.44294Positive News
LXFR
Luxfer
2.8333 of 5 stars
$12.63
+0.9%
$25.00
+97.9%
-15.8%$340M$423.40M22.961,350
QUAD
Quad/Graphics
2.1518 of 5 stars
$5.06
+3.1%
$9.00
+77.9%
+56.6%$260.64M$3.22B-9.5515,300
MKFG
Markforged
1.9874 of 5 stars
$1.31
+4.8%
$2.23
+70.5%
-34.6%$258.49M$100.96M-3.54428Gap Up
PKOH
Park-Ohio
2.5905 of 5 stars
$18.99
-0.6%
N/A+59.8%$248.20M$1.49B-22.087,100
SSTI
SoundThinking
2.2346 of 5 stars
$19.97
-1.1%
$38.88
+94.7%
-29.4%$244.23M$81M-153.62213
CIX
CompX International
0 of 5 stars
$17.97
+2.3%
N/AN/A$221.21M$166.60M11.16609Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:NWPX) was last updated on 9/23/2023 by MarketBeat.com Staff

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