PPIH vs. FTEK, CECE, DCI, CECO, IRBT, BOOM, QUAD, TPIC, SSTI, and TWIN
Should you be buying Perma-Pipe International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Perma-Pipe International include Fuel Tech (FTEK), CECO Environmental (CECE), Donaldson (DCI), CECO Environmental (CECO), iRobot (IRBT), DMC Global (BOOM), Quad/Graphics (QUAD), TPI Composites (TPIC), SoundThinking (SSTI), and Twin Disc (TWIN). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Perma-Pipe International (NASDAQ:PPIH) and Fuel Tech (NASDAQ:FTEK) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings and dividends.
Fuel Tech has a consensus target price of $4.00, indicating a potential upside of 244.83%. Given Fuel Tech's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Fuel Tech is more favorable than Perma-Pipe International.
Perma-Pipe International has a beta of 0.25, meaning that its share price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fuel Tech has a beta of 4.21, meaning that its share price is 321% more volatile than the S&P 500.
28.4% of Perma-Pipe International shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.9% of Fuel Tech shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.5% of Perma-Pipe International shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.3% of Fuel Tech shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Fuel Tech received 125 more outperform votes than Perma-Pipe International when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.96% of users gave Perma-Pipe International an outperform vote while only 50.59% of users gave Fuel Tech an outperform vote.
Perma-Pipe International has a net margin of 6.95% compared to Fuel Tech's net margin of -3.41%. Perma-Pipe International's return on equity of 17.70% beat Fuel Tech's return on equity.
In the previous week, Perma-Pipe International and Perma-Pipe International both had 5 articles in the media. Perma-Pipe International's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Fuel Tech's score of 0.95 indicating that Perma-Pipe International is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Perma-Pipe International has higher revenue and earnings than Fuel Tech. Fuel Tech is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Perma-Pipe International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Perma-Pipe International beats Fuel Tech on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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