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Insteel Industries (IIIN) Competitors

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IIIN vs. ROCK, APOG, AMWD, NX, LII, BLDR, MAS, OC, AOS, and AAON

Should you be buying Insteel Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Insteel Industries include Gibraltar Industries (ROCK), Apogee Enterprises (APOG), American Woodmark (AMWD), Quanex Building Products (NX), Lennox International (LII), Builders FirstSource (BLDR), Masco (MAS), Owens Corning (OC), A. O. Smith (AOS), and AAON (AAON). These companies are all part of the "building products" industry.

Insteel Industries vs.

Gibraltar Industries (NASDAQ:ROCK) and Insteel Industries (NASDAQ:IIIN) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, media sentiment, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Gibraltar Industries has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Insteel Industries has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Gibraltar Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Insteel Industries. Gibraltar Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Insteel Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Gibraltar Industries$1.31B1.16$110.53M$4.4711.47
Insteel Industries$570.46M1.10$19.31M$1.1627.80

98.4% of Gibraltar Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.3% of Insteel Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Gibraltar Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.0% of Insteel Industries shares are held 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.

Gibraltar Industries received 80 more outperform votes than Insteel Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.07% of users gave Gibraltar Industries an outperform vote while only 61.93% of users gave Insteel Industries an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Gibraltar IndustriesOutperform Votes
285
65.07%
Underperform Votes
153
34.93%
Insteel IndustriesOutperform Votes
205
61.93%
Underperform Votes
126
38.07%

In the previous week, Insteel Industries had 11 more articles in the media than Gibraltar Industries. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Insteel Industries and 2 mentions for Gibraltar Industries. Insteel Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Gibraltar Industries' score of 0.83 indicating that Insteel Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Gibraltar Industries
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Insteel Industries
5 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Gibraltar Industries has a net margin of 10.49% compared to Insteel Industries' net margin of 3.58%. Gibraltar Industries' return on equity of 13.19% beat Insteel Industries' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Gibraltar Industries10.49% 13.19% 9.44%
Insteel Industries 3.58%5.91%4.93%

Summary

Gibraltar Industries beats Insteel Industries on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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IIIN vs. The Competition

MetricInsteel IndustriesSteel works, blast furnaces, & rolling & finishing mills IndustryIndustrials SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$626.67M$4.57B$6.97B$7.51B
Dividend Yield0.45%3.62%3.59%4.33%
P/E Ratio32.5814.3020.1118.05
Price / Sales1.100.5876.20104.31
Price / Cash16.766.7826.9434.62
Price / Book1.891.093.604.14
Net Income$19.31M$1.00B$807.45M$247.59M
7 Day Performance5.73%1.65%0.57%3.51%
1 Month Performance13.82%-4.18%-3.54%-5.80%
1 Year Performance-5.48%-14.57%10.86%2.83%

Insteel Industries Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
IIIN
Insteel Industries
1.5361 of 5 stars
$32.84
+1.7%
N/A-7.5%$635.86M$570.46M33.05960Analyst Revision
ROCK
Gibraltar Industries
2.4892 of 5 stars
$53.33
-1.7%
N/A-30.2%$1.58B$1.31B11.932,140Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
Gap Up
APOG
Apogee Enterprises
4.7478 of 5 stars
$46.15
-0.8%
$62.00
+34.3%
-25.5%$1.01B$1.38B10.305,500Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
News Coverage
Gap Down
AMWD
American Woodmark
3.8954 of 5 stars
$56.57
-2.4%
$114.00
+101.5%
-39.6%$839.22M$1.76B8.4610,000Analyst Downgrade
NX
Quanex Building Products
4.879 of 5 stars
$17.25
-1.1%
$38.00
+120.3%
-54.1%$814.36M$1.44B15.403,880Positive News
LII
Lennox International
4.3815 of 5 stars
$558.39
+0.7%
$606.15
+8.6%
+6.9%$19.87B$5.34B24.7713,200Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
BLDR
Builders FirstSource
4.8701 of 5 stars
$119.56
-1.1%
$186.84
+56.3%
-37.3%$13.60B$16.40B13.2029,000Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
Positive News
MAS
Masco
4.8491 of 5 stars
$62.30
+0.6%
$83.37
+33.8%
-18.7%$13.19B$7.83B16.5719,000Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
OC
Owens Corning
4.865 of 5 stars
$140.20
+0.8%
$194.58
+38.8%
-17.6%$11.99B$10.98B11.9319,000Gap Up
AOS
A. O. Smith
4.8187 of 5 stars
$65.11
+0.9%
$78.00
+19.8%
-27.4%$9.37B$3.82B17.9412,000Upcoming Earnings
AAON
AAON
4.8088 of 5 stars
$84.01
-0.2%
$115.50
+37.5%
-7.3%$6.85B$1.20B37.013,670Upcoming Earnings
Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:IIIN) was last updated on 4/24/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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