LYTS vs. CINT, WLDN, SWIM, NOA, LMB, MEC, ORN, GLDD, SLND, and CSTE
Should you be buying LSI Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LSI Industries include CI&T (CINT), Willdan Group (WLDN), Latham Group (SWIM), North American Construction Group (NOA), Limbach (LMB), Mayville Engineering (MEC), Orion Group (ORN), Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), Southland (SLND), and Caesarstone (CSTE). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
CI&T (NYSE:CINT) and LSI Industries (NASDAQ:LYTS) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
CI&T currently has a consensus target price of $5.21, indicating a potential upside of 53.60%. LSI Industries has a consensus target price of $20.33, indicating a potential upside of 28.29%. Given LSI Industries' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe CI&T is more favorable than LSI Industries.
LSI Industries received 274 more outperform votes than CI&T when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.14% of users gave LSI Industries an outperform vote while only 34.48% of users gave CI&T an outperform vote.
In the previous week, CI&T had 8 more articles in the media than LSI Industries. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for CI&T and 2 mentions for LSI Industries. CI&T's average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat LSI Industries' score of 0.55 indicating that LSI Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
92.5% of CI&T shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.9% of LSI Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.3% of LSI Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
CI&T has higher earnings, but lower revenue than LSI Industries. CI&T is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LSI Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CI&T has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LSI Industries has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
CI&T has a net margin of 7.11% compared to CI&T's net margin of 5.97%. LSI Industries' return on equity of 15.96% beat CI&T's return on equity.
Summary
LSI Industries beats CI&T on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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