LXFR vs. GHM, QUAD, IPX, IRBT, NNBR, DM, PKOH, IPAX, EOSE, and SSTI
Should you be buying Luxfer stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Luxfer include Graham (GHM), Quad/Graphics (QUAD), IperionX (IPX), iRobot (IRBT), NN (NNBR), Desktop Metal (DM), Park-Ohio (PKOH), Inflection Point Acquisition (IPAX), Eos Energy Enterprises (EOSE), and SoundThinking (SSTI). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Luxfer (NYSE:LXFR) and Graham (NYSE:GHM) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends and risk.
Luxfer received 27 more outperform votes than Graham when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.13% of users gave Luxfer an outperform vote while only 64.18% of users gave Graham an outperform vote.
Luxfer has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Graham has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Graham has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Luxfer. Luxfer is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Graham, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Graham has a net margin of 1.52% compared to Luxfer's net margin of -0.47%. Luxfer's return on equity of 6.63% beat Graham's return on equity.
In the previous week, Graham had 3 more articles in the media than Luxfer. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Graham and 1 mentions for Luxfer. Luxfer's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Graham's score of 0.18 indicating that Luxfer is being referred to more favorably in the media.
90.8% of Luxfer shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.5% of Graham shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Luxfer shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of Graham shares are owned by company 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
Luxfer beats Graham on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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