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Latham Group (SWIM) Competitors

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$6.74 +0.12 (+1.81%)
As of 07/8/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

SWIM vs. NWL, KRT, LWLG, DSWL, NEWH, YHGJ, FORD, NCL, AZEK, and AGX

Should you be buying Latham Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Latham Group include Newell Brands (NWL), Karat Packaging (KRT), Lightwave Logic (LWLG), Deswell Industries (DSWL), NewHydrogen (NEWH), Yunhong Green CTI (YHGJ), Forward Industries (FORD), Northann (NCL), AZEK (AZEK), and Argan (AGX).

Latham Group vs. Its Competitors

Newell Brands (NASDAQ:NWL) and Latham Group (NASDAQ:SWIM) are both rubber and plastic products companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation and profitability.

92.5% of Newell Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.0% of Latham Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Newell Brands shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.9% of Latham Group 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.

Newell Brands currently has a consensus target price of $7.53, suggesting a potential upside of 31.60%. Latham Group has a consensus target price of $7.56, suggesting a potential upside of 12.17%. Given Newell Brands' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Newell Brands is more favorable than Latham Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Newell Brands
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.44
Latham Group
1 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.40

Newell Brands has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Latham Group has a beta of 1.72, indicating that its share price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Latham Group has a net margin of -3.13% compared to Newell Brands' net margin of -3.26%. Newell Brands' return on equity of 9.95% beat Latham Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Newell Brands-3.26% 9.95% 2.46%
Latham Group -3.13%-4.01%-1.93%

Latham Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Newell Brands. Latham Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Newell Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Newell Brands$7.58B0.32-$216M-$0.59-9.69
Latham Group$508.52M1.54-$17.86M-$0.14-48.14

In the previous week, Newell Brands had 4 more articles in the media than Latham Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Newell Brands and 1 mentions for Latham Group. Newell Brands' average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Latham Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Newell Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Newell Brands
2 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Latham Group
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Summary

Newell Brands beats Latham Group on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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SWIM vs. The Competition

MetricLatham GroupBLDG&CONST IndustryConstruction SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$770.35M$10.66B$9.34B$8.94B
Dividend YieldN/A1.78%2.05%4.04%
P/E Ratio-48.1419.6816.4120.11
Price / Sales1.542.00116.74119.76
Price / Cash27.0413.8714.8757.86
Price / Book2.013.794.595.56
Net Income-$17.86M$580.08M$620.21M$248.40M
7 Day Performance-2.88%-0.04%-0.76%4.67%
1 Month Performance13.47%5.71%2.73%6.64%
1 Year Performance152.43%14.32%104.51%21.31%

Latham Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SWIM
Latham Group
1.125 of 5 stars
$6.74
+1.8%
$7.56
+12.2%
+146.0%$770.35M$508.52M-48.141,817
NWL
Newell Brands
4.9379 of 5 stars
$5.40
-0.7%
$7.53
+39.4%
-7.1%$2.27B$7.58B-9.1523,700News Coverage
Positive News
KRT
Karat Packaging
3.8441 of 5 stars
$28.16
+2.0%
$33.50
+19.0%
+6.5%$554.51M$422.63M17.59680Positive News
High Trading Volume
LWLG
Lightwave Logic
0.0031 of 5 stars
$1.24
+2.5%
N/A-59.1%$151.30M$100K0.0020Gap Up
DSWL
Deswell Industries
0.8868 of 5 stars
$2.66
+7.3%
N/A+12.7%$39.52M$67.61M0.00990High Trading Volume
NEWH
NewHydrogen
N/A$0.03
-5.9%
N/A+615.7%$22.57MN/A0.002News Coverage
YHGJ
Yunhong Green CTI
N/A$0.85
+8.5%
N/A-34.5%$20.52M$17.95M0.0070Positive News
Gap Up
FORD
Forward Industries
0.2373 of 5 stars
$5.84
-3.6%
N/A+123.4%$6.82M$30.19M0.00100Gap Up
NCL
Northann
0.3295 of 5 stars
$0.16
-7.6%
N/A-21.5%$5.50M$15.58M-0.8073
AZEK
AZEK
3.0333 of 5 stars
$54.27
-1.1%
$53.93
-0.6%
N/A$7.89B$1.44B41.252,236High Trading Volume
AGX
Argan
0.8773 of 5 stars
$221.09
+0.6%
$193.00
-12.7%
+180.1%$3.00B$874.18M31.011,595Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:SWIM) was last updated on 7/9/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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