SLND vs. MAPS, SES, GLDD, ORN, SHIM, J, KBR, FLR, STRL, and ROAD
Should you be buying Southland stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Southland include WM Technology (MAPS), SES AI (SES), Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), Orion Group (ORN), Shimmick (SHIM), Jacobs Solutions (J), KBR (KBR), Fluor (FLR), Sterling Infrastructure (STRL), and Construction Partners (ROAD).
Southland (NASDAQ:SLND) and WM Technology (NASDAQ:MAPS) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings, profitability and community ranking.
WM Technology received 18 more outperform votes than Southland when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.35% of users gave WM Technology an outperform vote while only 25.00% of users gave Southland an outperform vote.
Southland currently has a consensus target price of $7.50, suggesting a potential upside of 27.33%. Given Southland's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Southland is more favorable than WM Technology.
2.8% of Southland shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.0% of WM Technology shares are owned by institutional investors. 79.0% of Southland shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 41.3% of WM Technology shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Southland has a beta of 0.13, meaning that its stock price is 87% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, WM Technology has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, WM Technology had 5 more articles in the media than Southland. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for WM Technology and 1 mentions for Southland. WM Technology's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Southland's score of 0.30 indicating that WM Technology is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Southland has higher revenue and earnings than WM Technology.
Southland has a net margin of -1.28% compared to WM Technology's net margin of -3.32%. WM Technology's return on equity of -12.58% beat Southland's return on equity.
Summary
WM Technology beats Southland on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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