GLDD vs. AMRC, TPC, AGX, NWPX, ORN, MTRX, GVA, ROAD, STRL, and FLR
Should you be buying Great Lakes Dredge & Dock stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock include Ameresco (AMRC), Tutor Perini (TPC), Argan (AGX), Northwest Pipe (NWPX), Orion Group (ORN), Matrix Service (MTRX), Granite Construction (GVA), Construction Partners (ROAD), Sterling Infrastructure (STRL), and Fluor (FLR).
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (NASDAQ:GLDD) and Ameresco (NYSE:AMRC) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking and earnings.
89.1% of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.2% of Ameresco shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 42.0% of Ameresco shares are owned by company 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.
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has a net margin of 6.05% compared to Ameresco's net margin of 4.17%. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock's return on equity of 8.83% beat Ameresco's return on equity.
Ameresco has a consensus price target of $40.31, suggesting a potential upside of 10.37%. Given Ameresco's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ameresco is more favorable than Great Lakes Dredge & Dock.
Ameresco has higher revenue and earnings than Great Lakes Dredge & Dock. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ameresco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Ameresco had 7 more articles in the media than Great Lakes Dredge & Dock. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Ameresco and 2 mentions for Great Lakes Dredge & Dock. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Ameresco's score of 0.65 indicating that Great Lakes Dredge & Dock is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ameresco received 110 more outperform votes than Great Lakes Dredge & Dock when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.87% of users gave Ameresco an outperform vote while only 59.71% of users gave Great Lakes Dredge & Dock an outperform vote.
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Ameresco has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Ameresco beats Great Lakes Dredge & Dock on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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