NWPX vs. DSX, PTSI, WLFC, CPLP, YELL, MG, FSTR, ORN, TWIN, and CRESY
Should you be buying Northwest Pipe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Northwest Pipe include Diana Shipping (DSX), P.A.M. Transportation Services (PTSI), Willis Lease Finance (WLFC), Capital Product Partners (CPLP), Yellow (YELL), Mistras Group (MG), L.B. Foster (FSTR), Orion Group (ORN), Twin Disc (TWIN), and Cresud Sociedad Anónima, Comercial, Inmobiliaria, Financiera y Agropecuaria (CRESY).
Diana Shipping (NYSE:DSX) and Northwest Pipe (NASDAQ:NWPX) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
Diana Shipping has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Northwest Pipe has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Northwest Pipe has a consensus target price of $40.00, suggesting a potential upside of 15.91%. Given Diana Shipping's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Northwest Pipe is more favorable than Diana Shipping.
Diana Shipping received 70 more outperform votes than Northwest Pipe when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.98% of users gave Northwest Pipe an outperform vote while only 52.58% of users gave Diana Shipping an outperform vote.
48.7% of Diana Shipping shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.6% of Northwest Pipe shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Northwest Pipe shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Diana Shipping has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Northwest Pipe. Diana Shipping is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Northwest Pipe, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Northwest Pipe had 1 more articles in the media than Diana Shipping. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Northwest Pipe and 3 mentions for Diana Shipping. Diana Shipping's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Northwest Pipe's score of 0.66 indicating that Northwest Pipe is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Diana Shipping has a net margin of 19.02% compared to Diana Shipping's net margin of 4.74%. Northwest Pipe's return on equity of 10.34% beat Diana Shipping's return on equity.
Summary
Northwest Pipe beats Diana Shipping on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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