SMID vs. NOBH, ORN, AENZ, GFASY, TURN, OESX, CHCI, DRTT, GEVI, and GLT
Should you be buying Smith-Midland stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Smith-Midland include Nobility Homes (NOBH), Orion Group (ORN), Aenza S.A.A. (AENZ), Gafisa (GFASY), 180 Degree Capital (TURN), Orion Energy Systems (OESX), Comstock Holding Companies (CHCI), DIRTT Environmental Solutions (DRTT), General Enterprise Ventures (GEVI), and Glatfelter (GLT). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Smith-Midland vs.
Smith-Midland (OTCMKTS:SMID) and Nobility Homes (OTCMKTS:NOBH) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation and community ranking.
Nobility Homes has a net margin of 16.46% compared to Smith-Midland's net margin of 1.90%. Nobility Homes' return on equity of 21.93% beat Smith-Midland's return on equity.
Nobility Homes has higher revenue and earnings than Smith-Midland. Nobility Homes is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Smith-Midland, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Nobility Homes received 20 more outperform votes than Smith-Midland when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.65% of users gave Nobility Homes an outperform vote while only 64.86% of users gave Smith-Midland an outperform vote.
38.5% of Smith-Midland shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.0% of Nobility Homes shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.0% of Smith-Midland shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 66.9% of Nobility Homes shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Smith-Midland has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nobility Homes has a beta of 0.42, meaning that its share price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Nobility Homes had 3 more articles in the media than Smith-Midland. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Nobility Homes and 0 mentions for Smith-Midland. Nobility Homes' average media sentiment score of 0.22 beat Smith-Midland's score of 0.00 indicating that Nobility Homes is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Nobility Homes beats Smith-Midland on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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