ASPN vs. GLDD, EVA, HOV, NOA, LYTS, AGX, CPAC, TPC, LOMA, and BXC
Should you be buying Aspen Aerogels stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aspen Aerogels include Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), Enviva (EVA), Hovnanian Enterprises (HOV), North American Construction Group (NOA), LSI Industries (LYTS), Argan (AGX), Cementos Pacasmayo S.A.A. (CPAC), Tutor Perini (TPC), Loma Negra Compañía Industrial Argentina Sociedad Anónima (LOMA), and BlueLinx (BXC). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (NASDAQ:GLDD) and Aspen Aerogels (NYSE:ASPN) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk and community ranking.
Aspen Aerogels has a consensus price target of $23.88, suggesting a potential upside of 225.72%. Given Great Lakes Dredge & Dock's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Aspen Aerogels is more favorable than Great Lakes Dredge & Dock.
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has higher revenue and earnings than Aspen Aerogels. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aspen Aerogels, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aspen Aerogels has a beta of 2.01, indicating that its stock price is 101% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Aspen Aerogels received 66 more outperform votes than Great Lakes Dredge & Dock when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.93% of users gave Aspen Aerogels an outperform vote while only 60.91% of users gave Great Lakes Dredge & Dock an outperform vote.
82.4% of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.9% of Aspen Aerogels shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.2% of Aspen Aerogels shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has a net margin of -7.15% compared to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock's net margin of -37.58%. Aspen Aerogels' return on equity of -9.65% beat Great Lakes Dredge & Dock's return on equity.
In the previous week, Aspen Aerogels had 3 more articles in the media than Great Lakes Dredge & Dock. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Aspen Aerogels and 1 mentions for Great Lakes Dredge & Dock. Aspen Aerogels' average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Great Lakes Dredge & Dock's score of 0.10 indicating that Great Lakes Dredge & Dock is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Aspen Aerogels beats Great Lakes Dredge & Dock on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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