Highway (HIHO) Competitors

Highway (NASDAQ:HIHO) and TechPrecision (NASDAQ:TPCS) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and media sentiment.

Which has better earnings and valuation, HIHO or TPCS?

Highway has higher earnings, but lower revenue than TechPrecision. Highway is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TechPrecision, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Highway	$7.35M	0.89	-$960K	-$0.17	-8.74
TechPrecision	$33.15M	0.74	-$7.04M	-$0.89	-2.81

Is HIHO or TPCS more profitable?

Highway has a net margin of -10.36% compared to TechPrecision's net margin of -24.25%. Highway's return on equity of 1.53% beat TechPrecision's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Highway	-10.36%	1.53%	0.93%
TechPrecision	-24.25%	-86.04%	-22.36%

Which has more volatility & risk, HIHO or TPCS?

Highway has a beta of 0.16, indicating that its share price is 84% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TechPrecision has a beta of 0.13, indicating that its share price is 87% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of HIHO or TPCS?

13.2% of Highway shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.5% of TechPrecision shares are owned by institutional investors. 32.1% of Highway shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.4% of TechPrecision shares are owned 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.

Does the media refer more to HIHO or TPCS?

In the previous week, Highway and Highway both had 2 articles in the media. Highway's average media sentiment score of -0.23 beat TechPrecision's score of -0.50 indicating that Highway is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Highway	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
TechPrecision	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Negative

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in HIHO or TPCS?

Highway received 30 more outperform votes than TechPrecision when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.24% of users gave Highway an outperform vote while only 62.22% of users gave TechPrecision an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Highway	Outperform Votes 86 63.24%	Underperform Votes 50 36.76%
TechPrecision	Outperform Votes 56 62.22%	Underperform Votes 34 37.78%

Summary

Highway beats TechPrecision on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.