TRS vs. PKOH, HY, SCSC, MRC, ASTE, GRC, CMCO, CDRE, APOG, and XMTR
Should you be buying TriMas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TriMas include Park-Ohio (PKOH), Hyster-Yale Materials Handling (HY), ScanSource (SCSC), MRC Global (MRC), Astec Industries (ASTE), Gorman-Rupp (GRC), Columbus McKinnon (CMCO), Cadre (CDRE), Apogee Enterprises (APOG), and Xometry (XMTR). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Park-Ohio (NASDAQ:PKOH) and TriMas (NASDAQ:TRS) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, earnings, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
Park-Ohio has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TriMas has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
TriMas has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Park-Ohio. TriMas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Park-Ohio, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
51.4% of Park-Ohio shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.4% of TriMas shares are held by institutional investors. 33.3% of Park-Ohio shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of TriMas shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, TriMas had 9 more articles in the media than Park-Ohio. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for TriMas and 10 mentions for Park-Ohio. Park-Ohio's average media sentiment score of 0.36 beat TriMas' score of 0.36 indicating that TriMas is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
TriMas has a net margin of 4.52% compared to TriMas' net margin of 0.47%. TriMas' return on equity of 13.45% beat Park-Ohio's return on equity.
Park-Ohio received 91 more outperform votes than TriMas when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.13% of users gave Park-Ohio an outperform vote while only 54.38% of users gave TriMas an outperform vote.
Park-Ohio pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. TriMas pays an annual dividend of $0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Park-Ohio pays out 79.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. TriMas pays out 16.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
TriMas has a consensus price target of $40.00, indicating a potential upside of 49.53%. Given Park-Ohio's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe TriMas is more favorable than Park-Ohio.
Summary
TriMas beats Park-Ohio on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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