CSTE vs. LMB, GLDD, CINT, NOA, WLDN, LYTS, SWIM, MEC, ORN, and SLND
Should you be buying Caesarstone stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Caesarstone include Limbach (LMB), Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), CI&T (CINT), North American Construction Group (NOA), Willdan Group (WLDN), LSI Industries (LYTS), Latham Group (SWIM), Mayville Engineering (MEC), Orion Group (ORN), and Southland (SLND). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Caesarstone (NASDAQ:CSTE) and Limbach (NASDAQ:LMB) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, valuation and earnings.
Limbach has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Caesarstone. Caesarstone is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Limbach, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Limbach has a net margin of 4.93% compared to Caesarstone's net margin of -20.45%. Limbach's return on equity of 21.75% beat Caesarstone's return on equity.
33.7% of Caesarstone shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.9% of Limbach shares are held by institutional investors. 10.2% of Limbach shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Caesarstone currently has a consensus price target of $5.50, indicating a potential downside of 8.03%. Limbach has a consensus price target of $39.00, indicating a potential downside of 31.67%. Given Caesarstone's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Caesarstone is more favorable than Limbach.
Caesarstone has a beta of 0.23, meaning that its stock price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Limbach has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Caesarstone and Caesarstone both had 5 articles in the media. Caesarstone's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Limbach's score of 0.53 indicating that Caesarstone is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Caesarstone received 165 more outperform votes than Limbach when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.08% of users gave Caesarstone an outperform vote while only 55.76% of users gave Limbach an outperform vote.
Summary
Limbach beats Caesarstone on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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