HDSN vs. LAWS, KAMN, DSGR, WLFC, ASLE, UGRO, AIT, LZ, HLIO, and KALU
Should you be buying Hudson Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hudson Technologies include Lawson Products (LAWS), Kaman (KAMN), Distribution Solutions Group (DSGR), Willis Lease Finance (WLFC), AerSale (ASLE), urban-gro (UGRO), Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT), LegalZoom.com (LZ), Helios Technologies (HLIO), and Kaiser Aluminum (KALU).
Lawson Products (NASDAQ:LAWS) and Hudson Technologies (NASDAQ:HDSN) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
Lawson Products has a beta of 0.98, meaning that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hudson Technologies has a beta of 1, meaning that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Lawson Products and Lawson Products both had 4 articles in the media. Lawson Products' average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Hudson Technologies' score of 0.44 indicating that Hudson Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
88.2% of Lawson Products shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.3% of Hudson Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 51.8% of Lawson Products shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.2% of Hudson Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Hudson Technologies has a consensus target price of $12.40, suggesting a potential upside of 39.17%.
Hudson Technologies received 16 more outperform votes than Lawson Products when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.83% of users gave Lawson Products an outperform vote while only 68.92% of users gave Hudson Technologies an outperform vote.
Hudson Technologies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Lawson Products. Lawson Products is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hudson Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hudson Technologies has a net margin of 16.70% compared to Hudson Technologies' net margin of 3.42%. Lawson Products' return on equity of 21.59% beat Hudson Technologies' return on equity.
Summary
Hudson Technologies beats Lawson Products on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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