ORN vs. GLDD, SLND, CSTE, MEC, NWGL, SMID, SWIM, WLDN, LYTS, and GLT
Should you be buying Orion Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Orion Group include Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), Southland (SLND), Caesarstone (CSTE), Mayville Engineering (MEC), Nature Wood Group (NWGL), Smith-Midland (SMID), Latham Group (SWIM), Willdan Group (WLDN), LSI Industries (LYTS), and Glatfelter (GLT). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Orion Group (NYSE:ORN) and Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (NASDAQ:GLDD) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Orion Group has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has a net margin of 2.36% compared to Orion Group's net margin of -2.51%. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock's return on equity of 2.56% beat Orion Group's return on equity.
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Orion Group. Orion Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Great Lakes Dredge & Dock, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Orion Group presently has a consensus target price of $9.50, suggesting a potential upside of 19.50%. Given Orion Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Orion Group is more favorable than Great Lakes Dredge & Dock.
In the previous week, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock had 1 more articles in the media than Orion Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Great Lakes Dredge & Dock and 4 mentions for Orion Group. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Orion Group's score of -0.48 indicating that Great Lakes Dredge & Dock is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
70.3% of Orion Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.1% of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.3% of Orion Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock shares are owned by 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.
Orion Group received 184 more outperform votes than Great Lakes Dredge & Dock when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.90% of users gave Orion Group an outperform vote while only 59.66% of users gave Great Lakes Dredge & Dock an outperform vote.
Summary
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock beats Orion Group on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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