SWIM vs. BBCP, LYTS, CPAC, LMB, WLDN, GLDD, MEC, ORN, NOA, and SLND
Should you be buying Latham Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Latham Group include Concrete Pumping (BBCP), LSI Industries (LYTS), Cementos Pacasmayo S.A.A. (CPAC), Limbach (LMB), Willdan Group (WLDN), Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), Mayville Engineering (MEC), Orion Group (ORN), North American Construction Group (NOA), and Southland (SLND).
Concrete Pumping (NASDAQ:BBCP) and Latham Group (NASDAQ:SWIM) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations and dividends.
In the previous week, Concrete Pumping had 2 more articles in the media than Latham Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Concrete Pumping and 1 mentions for Latham Group. Latham Group's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Concrete Pumping's score of 0.35 indicating that Concrete Pumping is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Concrete Pumping has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Latham Group. Latham Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Concrete Pumping, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Concrete Pumping presently has a consensus target price of $8.50, indicating a potential upside of 23.91%. Latham Group has a consensus target price of $3.20, indicating a potential upside of 0.63%. Given Latham Group's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Concrete Pumping is more favorable than Latham Group.
Concrete Pumping received 89 more outperform votes than Latham Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.08% of users gave Concrete Pumping an outperform vote while only 37.65% of users gave Latham Group an outperform vote.
34.2% of Concrete Pumping shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.9% of Latham Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 27.4% of Concrete Pumping shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.6% of Latham Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Concrete Pumping has a net margin of 4.81% compared to Concrete Pumping's net margin of -0.42%. Latham Group's return on equity of 7.76% beat Concrete Pumping's return on equity.
Concrete Pumping has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Latham Group has a beta of 1.57, meaning that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Concrete Pumping beats Latham Group on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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