SMID vs. LEGH, CPAC, JELD, CIX, ZJK, ACU, MTEN, BW, VATE, and RECT
Should you be buying Smith-Midland stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Smith-Midland include Legacy Housing (LEGH), Cementos Pacasmayo S.A.A. (CPAC), JELD-WEN (JELD), CompX International (CIX), ZJK Industrial (ZJK), Acme United (ACU), Mingteng International (MTEN), Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises (BW), INNOVATE (VATE), and Rectitude (RECT). These companies are all part of the "construction materials" industry.
Smith-Midland vs. Its Competitors
Smith-Midland (NASDAQ:SMID) and Legacy Housing (NASDAQ:LEGH) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and media sentiment.
Legacy Housing has a consensus target price of $27.50, suggesting a potential upside of 23.93%. Given Legacy Housing's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Legacy Housing is more favorable than Smith-Midland.
In the previous week, Smith-Midland and Smith-Midland both had 2 articles in the media. Legacy Housing's average media sentiment score of 1.75 beat Smith-Midland's score of 1.38 indicating that Legacy Housing is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Legacy Housing received 92 more outperform votes than Smith-Midland when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.71% of users gave Legacy Housing an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave Smith-Midland an outperform vote.
Legacy Housing has a net margin of 33.11% compared to Smith-Midland's net margin of 8.52%. Smith-Midland's return on equity of 17.71% beat Legacy Housing's return on equity.
Smith-Midland has a beta of 1.62, suggesting that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Legacy Housing has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Legacy Housing has higher revenue and earnings than Smith-Midland. Legacy Housing is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Smith-Midland, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
49.9% of Smith-Midland shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.3% of Legacy Housing shares are held by institutional investors. 4.5% of Smith-Midland shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 30.6% of Legacy Housing shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Legacy Housing beats Smith-Midland on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NASDAQ:SMID) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
