BWEN vs. IPWR, APT, IDN, EBON, PPSI, VLD, ISDR, AIU, CLIR, and FTEK
Should you be buying Broadwind stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Broadwind include Ideal Power (IPWR), Alpha Pro Tech (APT), Intellicheck (IDN), Ebang International (EBON), Pioneer Power Solutions (PPSI), Velo3D (VLD), Issuer Direct (ISDR), Meta Data (AIU), ClearSign Technologies (CLIR), and Fuel Tech (FTEK). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Ideal Power (NASDAQ:IPWR) and Broadwind (NASDAQ:BWEN) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.
Ideal Power has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Broadwind has a beta of 1.34, meaning that its share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Broadwind had 21 more articles in the media than Ideal Power. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Broadwind and 6 mentions for Ideal Power. Broadwind's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Ideal Power's score of 0.68 indicating that Ideal Power is being referred to more favorably in the media.
16.4% of Ideal Power shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.3% of Broadwind shares are held by institutional investors. 5.1% of Ideal Power shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.7% of Broadwind shares are held 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.
Broadwind has a net margin of 4.36% compared to Broadwind's net margin of -3,560.07%. Ideal Power's return on equity of 15.41% beat Broadwind's return on equity.
Ideal Power received 50 more outperform votes than Broadwind when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.29% of users gave Ideal Power an outperform vote while only 61.03% of users gave Broadwind an outperform vote.
Ideal Power currently has a consensus price target of $14.00, indicating a potential upside of 88.17%. Broadwind has a consensus price target of $5.67, indicating a potential upside of 65.21%. Given Broadwind's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Ideal Power is more favorable than Broadwind.
Broadwind has higher revenue and earnings than Ideal Power. Ideal Power is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Broadwind, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Broadwind beats Ideal Power on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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