CINT vs. LYTS, WLDN, SWIM, NOA, LMB, MEC, GLDD, ORN, SLND, and CSTE
Should you be buying CI&T stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CI&T include LSI Industries (LYTS), Willdan Group (WLDN), Latham Group (SWIM), North American Construction Group (NOA), Limbach (LMB), Mayville Engineering (MEC), Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), Orion Group (ORN), Southland (SLND), and Caesarstone (CSTE). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
CI&T (NYSE:CINT) and LSI Industries (NASDAQ:LYTS) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking and media sentiment.
LSI Industries received 274 more outperform votes than CI&T when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.14% of users gave LSI Industries an outperform vote while only 34.48% of users gave CI&T an outperform vote.
92.5% of CI&T shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.9% of LSI Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 7.3% of LSI Industries shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
CI&T has a net margin of 7.11% compared to LSI Industries' net margin of 5.97%. CI&T's return on equity of 15.96% beat LSI Industries' return on equity.
CI&T has higher earnings, but lower revenue than LSI Industries. CI&T is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LSI Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CI&T has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LSI Industries has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, CI&T had 8 more articles in the media than LSI Industries. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for CI&T and 2 mentions for LSI Industries. LSI Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat CI&T's score of 0.55 indicating that LSI Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CI&T currently has a consensus price target of $5.21, indicating a potential upside of 53.60%. LSI Industries has a consensus price target of $20.33, indicating a potential upside of 28.29%. Given CI&T's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe CI&T is more favorable than LSI Industries.
Summary
LSI Industries beats CI&T on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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