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ORN vs. GLDD, AMRC, NWPX, MTRX, PWR, EME, FIX, ACM, MTZ, and FLR

Should you be buying Orion Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Orion Group include Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), Ameresco (AMRC), Northwest Pipe (NWPX), Matrix Service (MTRX), Quanta Services (PWR), EMCOR Group (EME), Comfort Systems USA (FIX), AECOM (ACM), MasTec (MTZ), and Fluor (FLR). These companies are all part of the "construction & engineering" industry.

Orion Group vs. Its Competitors

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (NASDAQ:GLDD) and Orion Group (NYSE:ORN) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.

89.1% of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.3% of Orion Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of Orion Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Orion Group has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has a net margin of 8.63% compared to Orion Group's net margin of 0.36%. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock's return on equity of 15.72% beat Orion Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock8.63% 15.72% 5.85%
Orion Group 0.36%5.12%1.69%

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock presently has a consensus target price of $14.00, indicating a potential upside of 26.47%. Orion Group has a consensus target price of $11.25, indicating a potential upside of 30.81%. Given Orion Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Orion Group is more favorable than Great Lakes Dredge & Dock.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Orion Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

In the previous week, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock had 4 more articles in the media than Orion Group. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Great Lakes Dredge & Dock and 2 mentions for Orion Group. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Orion Group's score of 0.37 indicating that Great Lakes Dredge & Dock is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock
3 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Orion Group
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Orion Group. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Orion Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock$762.69M0.99$57.26M$1.0210.85
Orion Group$796.39M0.43-$1.64M$0.05172.00

Summary

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock beats Orion Group on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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ORN vs. The Competition

MetricOrion GroupBLDG IndustryConstruction SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$339.37M$15.44B$9.47B$20.62B
Dividend YieldN/A2.35%2.02%3.72%
P/E Ratio172.0328.4116.2227.81
Price / Sales0.431.06114.9640.68
Price / Cash8.3613.0014.8522.32
Price / Book2.223.914.514.57
Net Income-$1.64M$1.37B$622.34M$989.30M
7 Day Performance-10.74%-2.38%0.93%0.20%
1 Month Performance1.53%4.64%6.74%5.53%
1 Year Performance-10.70%30.67%97.59%10.30%

Orion Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ORN
Orion Group
3.6018 of 5 stars
$8.60
-0.6%
$11.25
+30.8%
-10.7%$339.37M$796.39M172.032,450
GLDD
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock
4.9272 of 5 stars
$12.19
-0.3%
$14.00
+14.8%
+27.5%$830.74M$762.69M11.95430Positive News
AMRC
Ameresco
4.9617 of 5 stars
$15.21
+0.3%
$20.67
+35.9%
-46.2%$796.53M$1.77B14.911,509Analyst Downgrade
NWPX
Northwest Pipe
3.0879 of 5 stars
$41.01
-1.8%
$55.00
+34.1%
+19.3%$412.41M$492.55M12.541,358High Trading Volume
MTRX
Matrix Service
4.2173 of 5 stars
$13.51
-2.8%
$20.00
+48.0%
+41.1%$383.79M$728.21M-16.682,064
PWR
Quanta Services
3.859 of 5 stars
$378.40
-0.8%
$349.65
-7.6%
+42.7%$56.53B$23.67B61.0358,400Trending News
Analyst Upgrade
Analyst Revision
EME
EMCOR Group
3.7359 of 5 stars
$535.42
+0.9%
$518.00
-3.3%
+47.3%$23.75B$14.57B23.6640,400Positive News
Analyst Forecast
FIX
Comfort Systems USA
3.8898 of 5 stars
$536.12
+0.2%
$558.80
+4.2%
+67.8%$18.87B$7.03B32.1618,300News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
ACM
AECOM
3.6693 of 5 stars
$112.93
+0.1%
$120.86
+7.0%
+31.3%$14.92B$16.11B24.6051,000News Coverage
Positive News
MTZ
MasTec
3.8207 of 5 stars
$170.17
-1.1%
$166.75
-2.0%
+58.1%$13.57B$12.30B62.5633,000News Coverage
Positive News
FLR
Fluor
4.2104 of 5 stars
$51.31
-0.2%
$47.14
-8.1%
+9.8%$8.47B$16.32B4.9226,866Analyst Forecast

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