GRC vs. TWI, HY, SCSC, IRBT, CENX, MRC, KRNT, XMTR, ASTE, and PRLB
Should you be buying Gorman-Rupp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gorman-Rupp include Titan International (TWI), Hyster-Yale Materials Handling (HY), ScanSource (SCSC), iRobot (IRBT), Century Aluminum (CENX), MRC Global (MRC), Kornit Digital (KRNT), Xometry (XMTR), Astec Industries (ASTE), and Proto Labs (PRLB). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Gorman-Rupp (NYSE:GRC) and Titan International (NYSE:TWI) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, dividends and profitability.
Gorman-Rupp has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Titan International has a beta of 2.25, meaning that its stock price is 125% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Titan International has a net margin of 6.35% compared to Gorman-Rupp's net margin of 4.40%. Titan International's return on equity of 25.27% beat Gorman-Rupp's return on equity.
Titan International received 30 more outperform votes than Gorman-Rupp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.53% of users gave Gorman-Rupp an outperform vote while only 62.52% of users gave Titan International an outperform vote.
Gorman-Rupp currently has a consensus price target of $40.00, suggesting a potential upside of 25.94%. Given Gorman-Rupp's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Gorman-Rupp is more favorable than Titan International.
In the previous week, Gorman-Rupp had 1 more articles in the media than Titan International. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Gorman-Rupp and 0 mentions for Titan International. Gorman-Rupp's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Titan International's score of 0.00 indicating that Gorman-Rupp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Titan International has higher revenue and earnings than Gorman-Rupp. Titan International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gorman-Rupp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
60.3% of Gorman-Rupp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.4% of Titan International shares are held by institutional investors. 7.2% of Gorman-Rupp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 18.3% of Titan International shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Titan International beats Gorman-Rupp on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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