NC vs. IRBT, WHR, HELE, AMR, ARCH, BTU, ARLP, NRP, SBR, and SXC
Should you be buying NACCO Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NACCO Industries include iRobot (IRBT), Whirlpool (WHR), Helen of Troy (HELE), Alpha Metallurgical Resources (AMR), Arch Resources (ARCH), Peabody Energy (BTU), Alliance Resource Partners (ARLP), Natural Resource Partners (NRP), Sabine Royalty Trust (SBR), and SunCoke Energy (SXC).
iRobot (NASDAQ:IRBT) and NACCO Industries (NYSE:NC) 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 analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, profitability, risk, media sentiment, dividends and community ranking.
iRobot has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NACCO Industries has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
iRobot received 362 more outperform votes than NACCO Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.19% of users gave iRobot an outperform vote while only 63.87% of users gave NACCO Industries an outperform vote.
77.4% of iRobot shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.1% of NACCO Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of iRobot shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 41.3% of NACCO Industries shares are owned 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.
NACCO Industries has lower revenue, but higher earnings than iRobot. NACCO Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than iRobot, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NACCO Industries has a net margin of -18.68% compared to NACCO Industries' net margin of -24.42%. iRobot's return on equity of 2.79% beat NACCO Industries' return on equity.
iRobot presently has a consensus price target of $13.00, indicating a potential upside of 38.89%. Given NACCO Industries' higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe iRobot is more favorable than NACCO Industries.
In the previous week, iRobot had 7 more articles in the media than NACCO Industries. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for iRobot and 0 mentions for NACCO Industries. NACCO Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat iRobot's score of 0.00 indicating that iRobot is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
iRobot beats NACCO Industries on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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