AWX vs. WATT, HIHO, ARTW, MWG, ADN, DGLY, SQFT, CLWT, APDN, and MOB
Should you be buying Avalon stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Avalon include Energous (WATT), Highway (HIHO), Art's-Way Manufacturing (ARTW), Multi Ways (MWG), Advent Technologies (ADN), Digital Ally (DGLY), Presidio Property Trust (SQFT), Euro Tech (CLWT), Applied DNA Sciences (APDN), and Mobilicom (MOB). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Energous (NASDAQ:WATT) and Avalon (NYSE:AWX) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, earnings, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Energous has a beta of 2.55, suggesting that its stock price is 155% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Avalon has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Avalon had 1 more articles in the media than Energous. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Avalon and 1 mentions for Energous. Avalon's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Energous'average media sentiment score.
Avalon has a net margin of -2.20% compared to Avalon's net margin of -4,077.47%. Energous' return on equity of -4.88% beat Avalon's return on equity.
Avalon has higher revenue and earnings than Energous. Avalon is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Energous, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Energous presently has a consensus target price of $2.00, suggesting a potential upside of 48.15%. Given Avalon's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Energous is more favorable than Avalon.
4.4% of Energous shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.4% of Avalon shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Energous shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 20.1% of Avalon shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Energous received 384 more outperform votes than Avalon when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.31% of users gave Energous an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Avalon an outperform vote.
Summary
Avalon beats Energous on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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