SPLP vs. BOOM, WOR, BATRA, BATRK, VGR, FBYD, LXU, NPK, SRL, and LIVE
Should you be buying Steel Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Steel Partners include DMC Global (BOOM), Worthington Enterprises (WOR), Atlanta Braves (BATRA), Atlanta Braves (BATRK), Vector Group (VGR), Falcon's Beyond Global (FBYD), LSB Industries (LXU), National Presto Industries (NPK), Scully Royalty (SRL), and Live Ventures (LIVE).
Steel Partners (NYSE:SPLP) and DMC Global (NASDAQ:BOOM) are both small-cap multi-sector conglomerates companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment and community ranking.
DMC Global has a consensus price target of $24.00, indicating a potential upside of 83.35%. Given DMC Global's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe DMC Global is more favorable than Steel Partners.
DMC Global received 93 more outperform votes than Steel Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.94% of users gave Steel Partners an outperform vote while only 63.79% of users gave DMC Global an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Steel Partners had 1 more articles in the media than DMC Global. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Steel Partners and 3 mentions for DMC Global. DMC Global's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Steel Partners' score of 0.16 indicating that DMC Global is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
50.8% of Steel Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.6% of DMC Global shares are held by institutional investors. 79.2% of Steel Partners shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of DMC Global shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Steel Partners has higher revenue and earnings than DMC Global. Steel Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DMC Global, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Steel Partners has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DMC Global has a beta of 1.59, indicating that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Steel Partners has a net margin of 8.27% compared to DMC Global's net margin of 3.61%. Steel Partners' return on equity of 16.61% beat DMC Global's return on equity.
Summary
Steel Partners beats DMC Global on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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