HEES vs. LZ, HLIO, XRX, POWL, KALU, NSSC, CENX, TNC, UFPT, and EPAC
Should you be buying H&E Equipment Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of H&E Equipment Services include LegalZoom.com (LZ), Helios Technologies (HLIO), Xerox (XRX), Powell Industries (POWL), Kaiser Aluminum (KALU), Napco Security Technologies (NSSC), Century Aluminum (CENX), Tennant (TNC), UFP Technologies (UFPT), and Enerpac Tool Group (EPAC). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
H&E Equipment Services (NASDAQ:HEES) and LegalZoom.com (NASDAQ:LZ) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking and dividends.
H&E Equipment Services received 237 more outperform votes than LegalZoom.com when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.93% of users gave H&E Equipment Services an outperform vote while only 36.11% of users gave LegalZoom.com an outperform vote.
H&E Equipment Services has a net margin of 11.17% compared to LegalZoom.com's net margin of 3.15%. H&E Equipment Services' return on equity of 34.33% beat LegalZoom.com's return on equity.
H&E Equipment Services has a beta of 1.98, meaning that its stock price is 98% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LegalZoom.com has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
H&E Equipment Services currently has a consensus target price of $63.00, indicating a potential upside of 28.65%. LegalZoom.com has a consensus target price of $14.75, indicating a potential upside of 62.98%. Given LegalZoom.com's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe LegalZoom.com is more favorable than H&E Equipment Services.
In the previous week, LegalZoom.com had 6 more articles in the media than H&E Equipment Services. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for LegalZoom.com and 8 mentions for H&E Equipment Services. LegalZoom.com's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat H&E Equipment Services' score of 0.81 indicating that LegalZoom.com is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
84.1% of H&E Equipment Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.0% of LegalZoom.com shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.5% of H&E Equipment Services shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 10.5% of LegalZoom.com shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
H&E Equipment Services has higher revenue and earnings than LegalZoom.com. H&E Equipment Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LegalZoom.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
H&E Equipment Services beats LegalZoom.com on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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