PLPC vs. AEGN, POWL, VICR, THR, AMSC, LYTS, FCEL, MYRG, PRIM, and DY
Should you be buying Preformed Line Products stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Preformed Line Products include Aegion (AEGN), Powell Industries (POWL), Vicor (VICR), Thermon Group (THR), American Superconductor (AMSC), LSI Industries (LYTS), FuelCell Energy (FCEL), MYR Group (MYRG), Primoris Services (PRIM), and Dycom Industries (DY).
Aegion (NASDAQ:AEGN) and Preformed Line Products (NASDAQ:PLPC) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation and risk.
Preformed Line Products has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Aegion. Preformed Line Products is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aegion, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Preformed Line Products has a net margin of 8.20% compared to Preformed Line Products' net margin of -3.65%. Aegion's return on equity of 12.67% beat Preformed Line Products' return on equity.
Aegion received 94 more outperform votes than Preformed Line Products when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.17% of users gave Preformed Line Products an outperform vote while only 65.50% of users gave Aegion an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Preformed Line Products had 4 more articles in the media than Aegion. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Preformed Line Products and 0 mentions for Aegion. Aegion's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Preformed Line Products' score of 0.00 indicating that Preformed Line Products is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
94.7% of Aegion shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.2% of Preformed Line Products shares are held by institutional investors. 3.9% of Aegion shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 35.1% of Preformed Line Products shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Aegion has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Preformed Line Products has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Preformed Line Products beats Aegion on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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