EFXT vs. GHM, TWIN, GTEC, ITW, IR, ZBRA, ZWS, GTES, XPRO, and USAC
Should you be buying Enerflex stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Enerflex include Graham (GHM), Twin Disc (TWIN), Greenland Technologies (GTEC), Illinois Tool Works (ITW), Ingersoll Rand (IR), Zebra Technologies (ZBRA), Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (ZWS), Gates Industrial (GTES), Expro Group (XPRO), and USA Compression Partners (USAC).
Graham (NYSE:GHM) and Enerflex (NYSE:EFXT) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, risk and analyst recommendations.
Graham has a net margin of 1.52% compared to Graham's net margin of -4.61%. Enerflex's return on equity of 2.73% beat Graham's return on equity.
Enerflex has a consensus target price of $11.00, indicating a potential upside of 111.54%. Given Graham's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Enerflex is more favorable than Graham.
69.5% of Graham shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.5% of Enerflex shares are held by institutional investors. 5.4% of Graham shares are held 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.
Graham has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Enerflex. Enerflex is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Graham, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Graham received 258 more outperform votes than Enerflex when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.97% of users gave Graham an outperform vote while only 18.75% of users gave Enerflex an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Graham had 5 more articles in the media than Enerflex. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Graham and 2 mentions for Enerflex. Graham's average media sentiment score of 0.36 beat Enerflex's score of 0.19 indicating that Enerflex is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Graham has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enerflex has a beta of 2.2, suggesting that its share price is 120% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Graham pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Enerflex pays an annual dividend of $0.07 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Graham pays out 169.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Enerflex pays out -7.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Graham beats Enerflex on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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