NWPX vs. ACNT, IRBT, PKOH, LXFR, IPX, GHM, HDSN, ALTG, CIX, and BOOM Should you be buying Northwest Pipe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Northwest Pipe include Ascent Industries (ACNT), iRobot (IRBT), Park-Ohio (PKOH), Luxfer (LXFR), IperionX (IPX), Graham (GHM), Hudson Technologies (HDSN), Alta Equipment Group (ALTG), CompX International (CIX), and DMC Global (BOOM). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Ascent Industries (NASDAQ:ACNT ) and Northwest Pipe (NASDAQ:NWPX ) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Is ACNT or NWPX more profitable?
Northwest Pipe has a net margin of 5.22% compared to Northwest Pipe's net margin of -13.32%. Ascent Industries' return on equity of 7.11% beat Northwest Pipe's return on equity.
Which has more risk and volatility, ACNT or NWPX?
Ascent Industries has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Northwest Pipe has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Which has stronger valuation & earnings, ACNT or NWPX?
Northwest Pipe has higher revenue and earnings than Ascent Industries. Ascent Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Northwest Pipe, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Does the MarketBeat Community believe in ACNT or NWPX?
Northwest Pipe received 275 more outperform votes than Ascent Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Ascent Industries an outperform vote while only 57.86% of users gave Northwest Pipe an outperform vote.
Do analysts prefer ACNT or NWPX?
Ascent Industries presently has a consensus price target of $20.00, indicating a potential upside of 98.22%. Northwest Pipe has a consensus price target of $40.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.01%. Given Northwest Pipe's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Ascent Industries is more favorable than Northwest Pipe.
Does the media prefer ACNT or NWPX?
In the previous week, Ascent Industries had 8 more articles in the media than Northwest Pipe. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Ascent Industries and 2 mentions for Northwest Pipe. Ascent Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.82 beat Northwest Pipe's score of 1.49 indicating that Northwest Pipe is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in ACNT or NWPX?
26.1% of Ascent Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.6% of Northwest Pipe shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.9% of Ascent Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Northwest Pipe shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary Northwest Pipe beats Ascent Industries on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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