ARNC vs. WIRE, MLI, KALU, GEF, AIN, VRRM, WOR, ALRM, REZI, and UNF
Should you be buying Arconic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Arconic include Encore Wire (WIRE), Mueller Industries (MLI), Kaiser Aluminum (KALU), Greif (GEF), Albany International (AIN), Verra Mobility (VRRM), Worthington Industries (WOR), Alarm.com (ALRM), Resideo Technologies (REZI), and UniFirst (UNF). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Arconic vs.
Encore Wire (NASDAQ:WIRE) and Arconic (NYSE:ARNC) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, valuation and dividends.
99.2% of Encore Wire shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.9% of Arconic shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.6% of Encore Wire shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Arconic shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Encore Wire presently has a consensus target price of $250.00, indicating a potential upside of 38.18%. Arconic has a consensus target price of $22.67, indicating a potential downside of 21.80%. Given Encore Wire's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Encore Wire is more favorable than Arconic.
Encore Wire has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Arconic has a beta of 1.9, meaning that its stock price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Arconic had 1 more articles in the media than Encore Wire. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Arconic and 3 mentions for Encore Wire. Encore Wire's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Arconic's score of 0.89 indicating that Encore Wire is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Encore Wire has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Arconic. Arconic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Encore Wire, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Encore Wire has a net margin of 22.87% compared to Arconic's net margin of -2.29%. Encore Wire's return on equity of 39.17% beat Arconic's return on equity.
Arconic received 56 more outperform votes than Encore Wire when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.55% of users gave Arconic an outperform vote while only 58.76% of users gave Encore Wire an outperform vote.
Summary
Encore Wire beats Arconic on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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