MEC vs. TRS, PKOH, MTRN, JELD, VSEC, TPC, NX, AGX, BXC, and HOV
Should you be buying Mayville Engineering stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mayville Engineering include TriMas (TRS), Park-Ohio (PKOH), Materion (MTRN), JELD-WEN (JELD), VSE (VSEC), Tutor Perini (TPC), Quanex Building Products (NX), Argan (AGX), BlueLinx (BXC), and Hovnanian Enterprises (HOV).
Mayville Engineering (NYSE:MEC) and TriMas (NASDAQ:TRS) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and risk.
TriMas received 126 more outperform votes than Mayville Engineering when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.21% of users gave Mayville Engineering an outperform vote while only 54.50% of users gave TriMas an outperform vote.
Mayville Engineering has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TriMas has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, TriMas had 3 more articles in the media than Mayville Engineering. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for TriMas and 1 mentions for Mayville Engineering. TriMas' average media sentiment score of 1.70 beat Mayville Engineering's score of 0.65 indicating that TriMas is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
TriMas has higher revenue and earnings than Mayville Engineering. TriMas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mayville Engineering, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Mayville Engineering currently has a consensus price target of $16.00, suggesting a potential downside of 0.12%. TriMas has a consensus price target of $40.00, suggesting a potential upside of 50.26%. Given TriMas' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe TriMas is more favorable than Mayville Engineering.
TriMas has a net margin of 4.48% compared to Mayville Engineering's net margin of 1.40%. TriMas' return on equity of 9.68% beat Mayville Engineering's return on equity.
45.4% of Mayville Engineering shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.4% of TriMas shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.4% of Mayville Engineering shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of TriMas shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
TriMas beats Mayville Engineering on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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