NPK vs. LXU, SPLP, FBYD, VGR, SRL, LIVE, GEG, VATE, FGF, and LRHC
Should you be buying National Presto Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of National Presto Industries include LSB Industries (LXU), Steel Partners (SPLP), Falcon's Beyond Global (FBYD), Vector Group (VGR), Scully Royalty (SRL), Live Ventures (LIVE), Great Elm Group (GEG), INNOVATE (VATE), FG Financial Group (FGF), and La Rosa (LRHC). These companies are all part of the "multi-sector conglomerates" sector.
LSB Industries (NYSE:LXU) and National Presto Industries (NYSE:NPK) are both small-cap multi-sector conglomerates companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.
National Presto Industries has lower revenue, but higher earnings than LSB Industries. National Presto Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LSB Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
LSB Industries has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, National Presto Industries has a beta of 0.58, meaning that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.
LSB Industries received 108 more outperform votes than National Presto Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.32% of users gave National Presto Industries an outperform vote while only 58.85% of users gave LSB Industries an outperform vote.
LSB Industries currently has a consensus target price of $11.96, suggesting a potential upside of 36.73%. Given National Presto Industries' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe LSB Industries is more favorable than National Presto Industries.
In the previous week, National Presto Industries had 1 more articles in the media than LSB Industries. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for National Presto Industries and 2 mentions for LSB Industries. LSB Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat National Presto Industries' score of 0.11 indicating that National Presto Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
73.7% of LSB Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.6% of National Presto Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 4.6% of LSB Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 28.2% of National Presto Industries shares are held 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.
National Presto Industries has a net margin of 10.14% compared to National Presto Industries' net margin of 4.70%. LSB Industries' return on equity of 10.14% beat National Presto Industries' return on equity.
Summary
National Presto Industries beats LSB Industries on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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