PLL vs. TRS, GRC, PRLB, ERII, OFLX, GHM, FSTR, BOOM, EML, and NNBR
Should you be buying Piedmont Lithium stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Piedmont Lithium include TriMas (TRS), Gorman-Rupp (GRC), Proto Labs (PRLB), Energy Recovery (ERII), Omega Flex (OFLX), Graham (GHM), L.B. Foster (FSTR), DMC Global (BOOM), Eastern (EML), and NN (NNBR). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.
TriMas (NASDAQ:TRS) and Piedmont Lithium (NASDAQ:PLL) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
TriMas received 5 more outperform votes than Piedmont Lithium when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.50% of users gave TriMas an outperform vote while only 53.35% of users gave Piedmont Lithium an outperform vote.
TriMas has higher revenue and earnings than Piedmont Lithium. Piedmont Lithium is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TriMas, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
TriMas has a net margin of 4.48% compared to TriMas' net margin of 0.00%. Piedmont Lithium's return on equity of 9.68% beat TriMas' return on equity.
In the previous week, Piedmont Lithium had 1 more articles in the media than TriMas. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Piedmont Lithium and 5 mentions for TriMas. Piedmont Lithium's average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat TriMas' score of 1.13 indicating that TriMas is being referred to more favorably in the media.
TriMas presently has a consensus target price of $40.00, indicating a potential upside of 49.81%. Piedmont Lithium has a consensus target price of $67.00, indicating a potential upside of 391.56%. Given TriMas' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Piedmont Lithium is more favorable than TriMas.
TriMas has a beta of 0.71, indicating that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Piedmont Lithium has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
99.4% of TriMas shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.2% of Piedmont Lithium shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of TriMas shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Piedmont Lithium shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
TriMas beats Piedmont Lithium on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding PLL and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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