Highway (HIHO) Competitors

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

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, TPCS or HIHO?

Highway has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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
TechPrecision	$31.59M	0.94	-$7.04M	-$0.91	-3.38
Highway	$7.65M	1.12	-$960K	-$0.12	-16.21

Do institutionals and insiders believe in TPCS or HIHO?

15.5% of TechPrecision shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.2% of Highway shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.4% of TechPrecision shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 32.1% of Highway shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more volatility & risk, TPCS or HIHO?

TechPrecision has a beta of 0.21, suggesting that its stock price is 79% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Highway has a beta of 0.02, suggesting that its stock price is 98% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is TPCS or HIHO more profitable?

Highway has a net margin of -5.79% compared to TechPrecision's net margin of -24.76%. Highway's return on equity of 4.49% beat TechPrecision's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
TechPrecision	-24.76%	-75.87%	-21.71%
Highway	-5.79%	4.49%	2.61%

Does the media prefer TPCS or HIHO?

In the previous week, TechPrecision had 1 more articles in the media than Highway. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for TechPrecision and 0 mentions for Highway. TechPrecision's average media sentiment score of 0.35 beat Highway's score of 0.00 indicating that TechPrecision is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
TechPrecision	Neutral
Highway	Neutral

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in TPCS or HIHO?

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

Summary

Highway beats TechPrecision on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.