CECO vs. HAYW, ATS, EPAC, HSAI, AZTA, SEI, DNOW, ACMR, KRNT, and CRCT
Should you be buying CECO Environmental stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CECO Environmental include Hayward (HAYW), ATS (ATS), Enerpac Tool Group (EPAC), Hesai Group (HSAI), Azenta (AZTA), Solaris Energy Infrastructure (SEI), DNOW (DNOW), ACM Research (ACMR), Kornit Digital (KRNT), and Cricut (CRCT). 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 stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, media sentiment and community ranking.
CECO Environmental has a beta of 1.41, indicating that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hayward has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
In the previous week, Hayward had 1 more articles in the media than CECO Environmental. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Hayward and 8 mentions for CECO Environmental. CECO Environmental's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Hayward's score of -0.16 indicating that CECO Environmental is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hayward received 17 more outperform votes than CECO Environmental when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.00% of users gave CECO Environmental an outperform vote while only 46.59% of users gave Hayward an outperform vote.
68.1% of CECO Environmental shares are held by institutional investors. 16.9% of CECO Environmental shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Hayward shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
CECO Environmental presently has a consensus price target of $36.20, suggesting a potential upside of 57.39%. Hayward has a consensus price target of $17.63, suggesting a potential upside of 23.55%. Given CECO Environmental's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe CECO Environmental is more favorable than Hayward.
Summary
CECO Environmental beats Hayward on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:CECO) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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