APOG vs. DNOW, HOLI, CENX, NSSC, HY, KALU, GIC, LNN, CMCO, and CDRE
Should you be buying Apogee Enterprises stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Apogee Enterprises include DNOW (DNOW), Hollysys Automation Technologies (HOLI), Century Aluminum (CENX), Napco Security Technologies (NSSC), Hyster-Yale Materials Handling (HY), Kaiser Aluminum (KALU), Global Industrial (GIC), Lindsay (LNN), Columbus McKinnon (CMCO), and Cadre (CDRE). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Apogee Enterprises (NASDAQ:APOG) and DNOW (NYSE:DNOW) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership and earnings.
Apogee Enterprises presently has a consensus target price of $50.00, indicating a potential downside of 24.86%. DNOW has a consensus target price of $16.50, indicating a potential upside of 21.15%. Given DNOW's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe DNOW is more favorable than Apogee Enterprises.
DNOW has higher revenue and earnings than Apogee Enterprises. DNOW is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Apogee Enterprises, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Apogee Enterprises has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DNOW has a beta of 1.48, suggesting that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
DNOW has a net margin of 10.30% compared to Apogee Enterprises' net margin of 7.03%. Apogee Enterprises' return on equity of 23.84% beat DNOW's return on equity.
DNOW received 8 more outperform votes than Apogee Enterprises when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.49% of users gave Apogee Enterprises an outperform vote while only 52.68% of users gave DNOW an outperform vote.
In the previous week, DNOW had 4 more articles in the media than Apogee Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for DNOW and 4 mentions for Apogee Enterprises. Apogee Enterprises' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat DNOW's score of 0.17 indicating that Apogee Enterprises is being referred to more favorably in the media.
94.1% of Apogee Enterprises shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.6% of DNOW shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Apogee Enterprises shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of DNOW shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
DNOW beats Apogee Enterprises on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding APOG and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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