PLUG vs. HOLI, B, DNOW, POWL, UFPT, CENX, KMT, NSSC, EPAC, and GIC
Should you be buying Plug Power stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Plug Power include Hollysys Automation Technologies (HOLI), Barnes Group (B), DNOW (DNOW), Powell Industries (POWL), UFP Technologies (UFPT), Century Aluminum (CENX), Kennametal (KMT), Napco Security Technologies (NSSC), Enerpac Tool Group (EPAC), and Global Industrial (GIC). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Hollysys Automation Technologies (NASDAQ:HOLI) and Plug Power (NASDAQ:PLUG) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Plug Power has a consensus price target of $6.05, indicating a potential upside of 133.77%. Given Hollysys Automation Technologies' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Plug Power is more favorable than Hollysys Automation Technologies.
78.7% of Hollysys Automation Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.5% of Plug Power shares are held by institutional investors. 5.7% of Hollysys Automation Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Plug Power shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Plug Power had 24 more articles in the media than Hollysys Automation Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Plug Power and 2 mentions for Hollysys Automation Technologies. Plug Power's average media sentiment score of 0.39 beat Hollysys Automation Technologies' score of 0.10 indicating that Hollysys Automation Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Plug Power received 479 more outperform votes than Hollysys Automation Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.55% of users gave Plug Power an outperform vote while only 59.47% of users gave Hollysys Automation Technologies an outperform vote.
Hollysys Automation Technologies has a beta of 0.53, indicating that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Plug Power has a beta of 1.54, indicating that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Hollysys Automation Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Plug Power. Plug Power is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hollysys Automation Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hollysys Automation Technologies has a net margin of 10.56% compared to Hollysys Automation Technologies' net margin of -153.57%. Plug Power's return on equity of 7.09% beat Hollysys Automation Technologies' return on equity.
Summary
Hollysys Automation Technologies beats Plug Power on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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