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