CECO vs. HAYW, ATS, AZTA, EPAC, HSAI, DNOW, KRNT, EFXT, CRCT, and ACMR
Should you be buying CECO Environmental stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CECO Environmental include Hayward (HAYW), ATS (ATS), Azenta (AZTA), Enerpac Tool Group (EPAC), Hesai Group (HSAI), DNOW (DNOW), Kornit Digital (KRNT), Enerflex (EFXT), Cricut (CRCT), and ACM Research (ACMR). These companies are all part of the "machinery" industry.
CECO Environmental vs.
CECO Environmental (NASDAQ:CECO) and Hayward (NYSE:HAYW) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, profitability, valuation and dividends.
Hayward received 16 more outperform votes than CECO Environmental when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.00% of users gave CECO Environmental an outperform vote while only 45.98% of users gave Hayward an outperform vote.
Hayward has higher revenue and earnings than CECO Environmental. Hayward is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CECO Environmental, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CECO Environmental has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hayward has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CECO Environmental presently has a consensus target price of $36.20, suggesting a potential upside of 22.30%. Hayward has a consensus target price of $17.50, suggesting a potential upside of 16.01%. Given CECO Environmental's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe CECO Environmental is more favorable than Hayward.
Hayward has a net margin of 9.47% compared to CECO Environmental's net margin of 2.16%. CECO Environmental's return on equity of 11.12% beat Hayward's return on equity.
In the previous week, CECO Environmental had 5 more articles in the media than Hayward. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for CECO Environmental and 9 mentions for Hayward. CECO Environmental's average media sentiment score of 0.01 beat Hayward's score of -0.02 indicating that CECO Environmental is being referred to more favorably in the media.
68.1% of CECO Environmental shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.9% of CECO Environmental shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Hayward shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
CECO Environmental beats Hayward on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:CECO) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
