NEWP vs. MLAB, DAKT, FARO, VPG, COHR, BMI, CGNX, ITRI, OSIS, and ARMN
Should you be buying New Pacific Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of New Pacific Metals include Mesa Laboratories (MLAB), Daktronics (DAKT), FARO Technologies (FARO), Vishay Precision Group (VPG), Coherent (COHR), Badger Meter (BMI), Cognex (CGNX), Itron (ITRI), OSI Systems (OSIS), and Aris Mining (ARMN).
New Pacific Metals vs.
New Pacific Metals (NASDAQ:NEWP) and Mesa Laboratories (NASDAQ:MLAB) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and valuation.
New Pacific Metals has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Mesa Laboratories' net margin of -104.92%. Mesa Laboratories' return on equity of 30.23% beat New Pacific Metals' return on equity.
New Pacific Metals currently has a consensus target price of $5.00, suggesting a potential upside of 321.94%. Mesa Laboratories has a consensus target price of $140.00, suggesting a potential upside of 14.44%. Given New Pacific Metals' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe New Pacific Metals is more favorable than Mesa Laboratories.
23.0% of New Pacific Metals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.6% of Mesa Laboratories shares are held by institutional investors. 2.9% of New Pacific Metals shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.4% of Mesa Laboratories shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Mesa Laboratories had 2 more articles in the media than New Pacific Metals. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Mesa Laboratories and 0 mentions for New Pacific Metals. Mesa Laboratories' average media sentiment score of 1.61 beat New Pacific Metals' score of 0.00 indicating that Mesa Laboratories is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
New Pacific Metals has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Mesa Laboratories. New Pacific Metals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mesa Laboratories, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
New Pacific Metals has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mesa Laboratories has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
New Pacific Metals received 24 more outperform votes than Mesa Laboratories when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.73% of users gave New Pacific Metals an outperform vote while only 63.90% of users gave Mesa Laboratories an outperform vote.
Summary
Mesa Laboratories beats New Pacific Metals on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:NEWP) was last updated on 3/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
