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ALTG vs. CLMB, STKL, ASPN, ASLE, HDSN, WILC, HFFG, AENT, CGTL, and MMLP

Should you be buying Alta Equipment Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alta Equipment Group include Climb Global Solutions (CLMB), SunOpta (STKL), Aspen Aerogels (ASPN), AerSale (ASLE), Hudson Technologies (HDSN), G. Willi-Food International (WILC), HF Foods Group (HFFG), Alliance Entertainment (AENT), Creative Global Technology (CGTL), and Martin Midstream Partners (MMLP). These companies are all part of the "wholesale" industry.

Alta Equipment Group vs.

Climb Global Solutions (NASDAQ:CLMB) and Alta Equipment Group (NYSE:ALTG) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, community ranking and earnings.

Climb Global Solutions currently has a consensus price target of $136.00, suggesting a potential upside of 39.27%. Alta Equipment Group has a consensus price target of $12.63, suggesting a potential upside of 177.17%. Given Alta Equipment Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Alta Equipment Group is more favorable than Climb Global Solutions.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Climb Global Solutions
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Alta Equipment Group
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.60

Climb Global Solutions has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alta Equipment Group has a beta of 1.55, indicating that its stock price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Climb Global Solutions had 5 more articles in the media than Alta Equipment Group. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Climb Global Solutions and 2 mentions for Alta Equipment Group. Alta Equipment Group's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Climb Global Solutions' score of 0.12 indicating that Alta Equipment Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Climb Global Solutions
2 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Alta Equipment Group
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Climb Global Solutions pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Alta Equipment Group pays an annual dividend of $0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Climb Global Solutions pays out 16.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alta Equipment Group pays out -11.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Alta Equipment Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Climb Global Solutions has a net margin of 4.11% compared to Alta Equipment Group's net margin of -2.81%. Climb Global Solutions' return on equity of 23.63% beat Alta Equipment Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Climb Global Solutions4.11% 23.63% 5.76%
Alta Equipment Group -2.81%-42.09%-3.40%

49.7% of Climb Global Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.6% of Alta Equipment Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.6% of Climb Global Solutions shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.9% of Alta Equipment Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Alta Equipment Group received 13 more outperform votes than Climb Global Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 92.86% of users gave Climb Global Solutions an outperform vote while only 55.32% of users gave Alta Equipment Group an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Climb Global SolutionsOutperform Votes
13
92.86%
Underperform Votes
1
7.14%
Alta Equipment GroupOutperform Votes
26
55.32%
Underperform Votes
21
44.68%

Climb Global Solutions has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Alta Equipment Group. Alta Equipment Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Climb Global Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Climb Global Solutions$465.61M0.97$12.32M$4.0624.05
Alta Equipment Group$1.88B0.08$8.90M-$1.96-2.32

Summary

Climb Global Solutions and Alta Equipment Group tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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ALTG vs. The Competition

MetricAlta Equipment GroupIndustrial machinery & equipment IndustryIndustrials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$149.68M$1.56B$7.21B$19.02B
Dividend Yield5.10%4.73%3.56%4.03%
P/E Ratio-2.6817.3520.9533.12
Price / Sales0.080.6181.9928.04
Price / Cash1.469.5926.9017.52
Price / Book0.992.713.764.51
Net Income$8.90M$104.20M$808.20M$1.02B
7 Day Performance1.00%3.32%2.83%1.38%
1 Month Performance-0.24%3.32%1.95%-1.99%
1 Year Performance-59.37%-3.84%14.42%5.28%

Alta Equipment Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ALTG
Alta Equipment Group
3.4834 of 5 stars
$4.48
+5.3%
$12.63
+182.1%
-61.5%$147.05M$1.88B-2.632,000Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
CLMB
Climb Global Solutions
3.1804 of 5 stars
$105.51
-0.9%
$136.00
+28.9%
+63.5%$486.09M$465.61M28.59270Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Short Interest ↑
Positive News
STKL
SunOpta
3.5992 of 5 stars
$3.71
-4.9%
$9.50
+156.1%
-34.0%$444.29M$723.73M-20.611,450Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
ASPN
Aspen Aerogels
3.9029 of 5 stars
$5.09
-2.3%
$19.11
+275.5%
-65.6%$417.91M$452.70M31.81420Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
Positive News
ASLE
AerSale
4.163 of 5 stars
$6.29
-6.0%
$9.00
+43.1%
-2.2%$335.12M$345.07M629.63510Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
Positive News
HDSN
Hudson Technologies
2.4372 of 5 stars
$5.25
-4.0%
$7.50
+42.9%
-32.6%$231.13M$237.12M8.08220Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
Positive News
WILC
G. Willi-Food International
1.9426 of 5 stars
$14.49
-2.9%
N/A+59.8%$201.03M$575.80M12.82180Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
Positive News
HFFG
HF Foods Group
1.795 of 5 stars
$3.64
-7.1%
N/A+28.4%$191.97M$1.20B-121.33900Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
Positive News
High Trading Volume
AENT
Alliance Entertainment
1.7409 of 5 stars
$2.95
+5.0%
N/A+43.5%$150.32M$1.07B22.69847Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
CGTL
Creative Global Technology
N/A$5.98
+6.4%
N/AN/A$128.20M$35.61M0.00N/A
MMLP
Martin Midstream Partners
1.726 of 5 stars
$2.67
+0.8%
N/A+7.1%$104.28M$719.34M-20.541,450Short Interest ↓
News Coverage

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