PKOH vs. MEC, ATSG, FWRD, MTRN, UPS, FDX, EXPD, XPO, CHRW, and HUBG
Should you be buying Park-Ohio stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Park-Ohio include Mayville Engineering (MEC), Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), Forward Air (FWRD), Materion (MTRN), United Parcel Service (UPS), FedEx (FDX), Expeditors International of Washington (EXPD), XPO (XPO), C.H. Robinson Worldwide (CHRW), and Hub Group (HUBG).
Mayville Engineering (NYSE:MEC) and Park-Ohio (NASDAQ:PKOH) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, dividends, profitability, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Park-Ohio received 216 more outperform votes than Mayville Engineering when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.13% of users gave Park-Ohio an outperform vote while only 56.21% of users gave Mayville Engineering an outperform vote.
Mayville Engineering has a net margin of 1.40% compared to Mayville Engineering's net margin of 0.70%. Mayville Engineering's return on equity of 13.93% beat Park-Ohio's return on equity.
Mayville Engineering has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Park-Ohio. Park-Ohio is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mayville Engineering, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
45.4% of Mayville Engineering shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.4% of Park-Ohio shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.4% of Mayville Engineering shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 33.0% of Park-Ohio shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Park-Ohio had 5 more articles in the media than Mayville Engineering. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Park-Ohio and 1 mentions for Mayville Engineering. Mayville Engineering's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Park-Ohio's score of 0.47 indicating that Park-Ohio is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Mayville Engineering currently has a consensus target price of $16.00, indicating a potential upside of 0.13%. Given Park-Ohio's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Mayville Engineering is more favorable than Park-Ohio.
Mayville Engineering has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Park-Ohio has a beta of 1.21, meaning that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Park-Ohio beats Mayville Engineering on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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