EAF vs. ULBI, ZEO, GWH, AMPX, SKYX, WTMA, HYZN, OESX, NCNC, and LASE
Should you be buying GrafTech International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GrafTech International include Ultralife (ULBI), Zeo Energy (ZEO), ESS Tech (GWH), Amprius Technologies (AMPX), SKYX Platforms (SKYX), Welsbach Technology Metals Acquisition (WTMA), Hyzon Motors (HYZN), Orion Energy Systems (OESX), noco-noco (NCNC), and Laser Photonics (LASE). These companies are all part of the "electrical equipment" industry.
GrafTech International (NYSE:EAF) and Ultralife (NASDAQ:ULBI) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and risk.
Ultralife received 74 more outperform votes than GrafTech International when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.58% of users gave Ultralife an outperform vote while only 58.20% of users gave GrafTech International an outperform vote.
GrafTech International presently has a consensus price target of $1.88, indicating a potential upside of 133.44%. Ultralife has a consensus price target of $14.00, indicating a potential upside of 27.04%. Given GrafTech International's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe GrafTech International is more favorable than Ultralife.
GrafTech International has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ultralife has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
92.8% of GrafTech International shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.7% of Ultralife shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of GrafTech International shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 39.9% of Ultralife shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ultralife has lower revenue, but higher earnings than GrafTech International. GrafTech International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ultralife, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ultralife has a net margin of 6.19% compared to GrafTech International's net margin of -45.08%. Ultralife's return on equity of 10.31% beat GrafTech International's return on equity.
In the previous week, Ultralife had 7 more articles in the media than GrafTech International. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Ultralife and 1 mentions for GrafTech International. Ultralife's average media sentiment score of 0.17 beat GrafTech International's score of -0.01 indicating that Ultralife is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Ultralife beats GrafTech International on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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