SWIM vs. BBCP, MEC, ORN, LYTS, WLDN, CSTE, GLDD, SLND, SMID, and CINT Should you be buying Latham Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Latham Group include Concrete Pumping (BBCP), Mayville Engineering (MEC), Orion Group (ORN), LSI Industries (LYTS), Willdan Group (WLDN), Caesarstone (CSTE), Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), Southland (SLND), Smith-Midland (SMID), and CI&T (CINT).
Concrete Pumping (NASDAQ:BBCP ) and Latham Group (NASDAQ:SWIM ) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.
34.2% of Concrete Pumping shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.0% of Latham Group shares are held by institutional investors. 27.4% of Concrete Pumping shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.6% of Latham Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Concrete Pumping received 89 more outperform votes than Latham Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.08% of users gave Concrete Pumping an outperform vote while only 37.21% of users gave Latham Group an outperform vote.
Concrete Pumping has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Latham Group. Concrete Pumping is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Latham Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Latham Group had 2 more articles in the media than Concrete Pumping. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Latham Group and 4 mentions for Concrete Pumping. Concrete Pumping's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Latham Group's score of 0.52 indicating that Latham Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Concrete Pumping has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Latham Group has a beta of 1.67, meaning that its share price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Concrete Pumping has a net margin of 4.81% compared to Concrete Pumping's net margin of 0.76%. Latham Group's return on equity of 7.76% beat Concrete Pumping's return on equity.
Concrete Pumping presently has a consensus price target of $8.50, suggesting a potential upside of 24.27%. Latham Group has a consensus price target of $3.53, suggesting a potential downside of 8.46%. Given Latham Group's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Concrete Pumping is more favorable than Latham Group.
Summary Concrete Pumping beats Latham Group on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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