NOA vs. CINT, GLDD, LMB, LYTS, TPC, SWIM, WLDN, LOMA, AGX, and HOV
Should you be buying North American Construction Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of North American Construction Group include CI&T (CINT), Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), Limbach (LMB), LSI Industries (LYTS), Tutor Perini (TPC), Latham Group (SWIM), Willdan Group (WLDN), Loma Negra Compañía Industrial Argentina Sociedad Anónima (LOMA), Argan (AGX), and Hovnanian Enterprises (HOV). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
North American Construction Group (NYSE:NOA) and CI&T (NYSE:CINT) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking and earnings.
North American Construction Group received 367 more outperform votes than CI&T when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.81% of users gave North American Construction Group an outperform vote while only 35.71% of users gave CI&T an outperform vote.
CI&T has a net margin of 7.11% compared to North American Construction Group's net margin of 6.60%. North American Construction Group's return on equity of 22.18% beat CI&T's return on equity.
North American Construction Group presently has a consensus price target of $39.00, suggesting a potential upside of 78.98%. CI&T has a consensus price target of $5.38, suggesting a potential upside of 38.53%. Given North American Construction Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe North American Construction Group is more favorable than CI&T.
75.0% of North American Construction Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.5% of CI&T shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.7% of North American Construction Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, CI&T had 3 more articles in the media than North American Construction Group. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for CI&T and 4 mentions for North American Construction Group. North American Construction Group's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat CI&T's score of 0.04 indicating that North American Construction Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
North American Construction Group has a beta of 1.53, meaning that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CI&T has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
North American Construction Group has higher revenue and earnings than CI&T. North American Construction Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CI&T, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
North American Construction Group beats CI&T on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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