TBLT vs. SCX, EML, LCUT, SSD, ITW, PH, IR, XYL, DOV, and IEX
Should you be buying ToughBuilt Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ToughBuilt Industries include L.S. Starrett (SCX), Eastern (EML), Lifetime Brands (LCUT), Simpson Manufacturing (SSD), Illinois Tool Works (ITW), Parker-Hannifin (PH), Ingersoll Rand (IR), Xylem (XYL), Dover (DOV), and IDEX (IEX).
ToughBuilt Industries (NASDAQ:TBLT) and L.S. Starrett (NYSE:SCX) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, community ranking, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.
L.S. Starrett has a net margin of 5.02% compared to ToughBuilt Industries' net margin of 0.00%. L.S. Starrett's return on equity of 2.44% beat ToughBuilt Industries' return on equity.
20.6% of ToughBuilt Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.4% of L.S. Starrett shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of ToughBuilt Industries shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.0% of L.S. Starrett shares are owned by 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.
L.S. Starrett has higher revenue and earnings than ToughBuilt Industries. ToughBuilt Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than L.S. Starrett, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
L.S. Starrett received 112 more outperform votes than ToughBuilt Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave ToughBuilt Industries an outperform vote while only 67.14% of users gave L.S. Starrett an outperform vote.
In the previous week, ToughBuilt Industries had 1 more articles in the media than L.S. Starrett. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for ToughBuilt Industries and 0 mentions for L.S. Starrett. ToughBuilt Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat L.S. Starrett's score of 0.00 indicating that ToughBuilt Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
ToughBuilt Industries has a beta of 2.23, indicating that its stock price is 123% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, L.S. Starrett has a beta of 0.48, indicating that its stock price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
L.S. Starrett beats ToughBuilt Industries on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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