XPEL vs. SMR, MEC, NTIC, NTG, AZZ, PII, DORM, PSNY, LCII, and CARG
Should you be buying XPEL stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of XPEL include NuScale Power (SMR), Mayville Engineering (MEC), Northern Technologies International (NTIC), Tortoise Midstream Energy Fund (NTG), AZZ (AZZ), Polaris (PII), Dorman Products (DORM), Polestar Automotive Holding UK (PSNY), LCI Industries (LCII), and CarGurus (CARG).
NuScale Power (NYSE:SMR) and XPEL (NASDAQ:XPEL) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment and earnings.
XPEL received 36 more outperform votes than NuScale Power when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.56% of users gave XPEL an outperform vote while only 52.94% of users gave NuScale Power an outperform vote.
NuScale Power presently has a consensus price target of $8.15, indicating a potential upside of 16.76%. XPEL has a consensus price target of $49.00, indicating a potential upside of 16.28%. Given NuScale Power's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe NuScale Power is more favorable than XPEL.
NuScale Power has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, XPEL has a beta of 1.84, meaning that its share price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500.
15.3% of NuScale Power shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.1% of XPEL shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of NuScale Power shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.5% of XPEL shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
XPEL has a net margin of 11.59% compared to NuScale Power's net margin of -592.28%. XPEL's return on equity of 26.80% beat NuScale Power's return on equity.
XPEL has higher revenue and earnings than NuScale Power. NuScale Power is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than XPEL, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, XPEL had 12 more articles in the media than NuScale Power. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for XPEL and 9 mentions for NuScale Power. NuScale Power's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat XPEL's score of 0.16 indicating that NuScale Power is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
XPEL beats NuScale Power on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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