GLDD vs. ORN, SLND, LMB, NOA, CINT, LYTS, WLDN, SWIM, LOMA, and BZH
Should you be buying Great Lakes Dredge & Dock stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock include Orion Group (ORN), Southland (SLND), Limbach (LMB), North American Construction Group (NOA), CI&T (CINT), LSI Industries (LYTS), Willdan Group (WLDN), Latham Group (SWIM), Loma Negra Compañía Industrial Argentina Sociedad Anónima (LOMA), and Beazer Homes USA (BZH). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Orion Group (NYSE:ORN) and Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (NASDAQ:GLDD) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Orion Group received 183 more outperform votes than Great Lakes Dredge & Dock when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.87% of users gave Orion Group an outperform vote while only 59.71% of users gave Great Lakes Dredge & Dock an outperform vote.
Orion Group currently has a consensus price target of $11.75, suggesting a potential upside of 25.40%. Given Great Lakes Dredge & Dock's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Orion Group is more favorable than Great Lakes Dredge & Dock.
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has a net margin of 6.05% compared to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock's net margin of -1.59%. Orion Group's return on equity of 8.83% beat Great Lakes Dredge & Dock's return on equity.
70.3% of Orion Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.1% of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.3% of Orion Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Orion Group. Orion Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Great Lakes Dredge & Dock, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Orion Group has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Orion Group had 3 more articles in the media than Great Lakes Dredge & Dock. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Orion Group and 5 mentions for Great Lakes Dredge & Dock. Orion Group's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Great Lakes Dredge & Dock's score of 0.74 indicating that Great Lakes Dredge & Dock is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock beats Orion Group on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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