NEWP vs. DAKT, MLAB, FARO, VPG, COHR, CGNX, BMI, ITRI, OSIS, and PPTA
Should you be buying New Pacific Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of New Pacific Metals include Daktronics (DAKT), Mesa Laboratories (MLAB), FARO Technologies (FARO), Vishay Precision Group (VPG), Coherent (COHR), Cognex (CGNX), Badger Meter (BMI), Itron (ITRI), OSI Systems (OSIS), and Perpetua Resources (PPTA).
New Pacific Metals vs.
New Pacific Metals (NASDAQ:NEWP) and Daktronics (NASDAQ:DAKT) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, community ranking, profitability and institutional ownership.
New Pacific Metals presently has a consensus price target of $5.00, indicating a potential upside of 306.50%. Daktronics has a consensus price target of $26.00, indicating a potential upside of 58.44%. Given New Pacific Metals' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe New Pacific Metals is more favorable than Daktronics.
Daktronics has higher revenue and earnings than New Pacific Metals. New Pacific Metals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Daktronics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Daktronics had 4 more articles in the media than New Pacific Metals. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Daktronics and 0 mentions for New Pacific Metals. Daktronics' average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat New Pacific Metals' score of 0.00 indicating that Daktronics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
New Pacific Metals has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Daktronics has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
New Pacific Metals received 11 more outperform votes than Daktronics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.73% of users gave New Pacific Metals an outperform vote while only 64.13% of users gave Daktronics an outperform vote.
Daktronics has a net margin of 3.62% compared to New Pacific Metals' net margin of 0.00%. Daktronics' return on equity of 19.61% beat New Pacific Metals' return on equity.
23.0% of New Pacific Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.7% of Daktronics shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.9% of New Pacific Metals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.5% of Daktronics shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Daktronics beats New Pacific Metals on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:NEWP) was last updated on 2/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
