CDRE vs. CMCO, SCSC, MRC, LNN, GIC, HY, TRS, HOLI, APOG, and DNOW
Should you be buying Cadre stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cadre include Columbus McKinnon (CMCO), ScanSource (SCSC), MRC Global (MRC), Lindsay (LNN), Global Industrial (GIC), Hyster-Yale Materials Handling (HY), TriMas (TRS), Hollysys Automation Technologies (HOLI), Apogee Enterprises (APOG), and DNOW (DNOW). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Columbus McKinnon (NASDAQ:CMCO) and Cadre (NYSE:CDRE) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment and dividends.
Columbus McKinnon has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cadre has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Columbus McKinnon pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Cadre pays an annual dividend of $0.35 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Columbus McKinnon pays out 16.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cadre pays out 34.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Columbus McKinnon has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Cadre has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Cadre had 4 more articles in the media than Columbus McKinnon. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Cadre and 4 mentions for Columbus McKinnon. Columbus McKinnon's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat Cadre's score of 0.00 indicating that Cadre is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cadre has a net margin of 7.58% compared to Cadre's net margin of 4.86%. Columbus McKinnon's return on equity of 19.18% beat Cadre's return on equity.
Columbus McKinnon has higher revenue and earnings than Cadre. Columbus McKinnon is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cadre, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Columbus McKinnon presently has a consensus price target of $50.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.79%. Cadre has a consensus price target of $41.25, suggesting a potential upside of 34.41%. Given Columbus McKinnon's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Cadre is more favorable than Columbus McKinnon.
96.0% of Columbus McKinnon shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.0% of Cadre shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Columbus McKinnon shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 49.2% of Cadre shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Columbus McKinnon received 268 more outperform votes than Cadre when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.26% of users gave Columbus McKinnon an outperform vote while only 53.57% of users gave Cadre an outperform vote.
Summary
Cadre beats Columbus McKinnon on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding CDRE 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 NYSE 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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