AP vs. NNBR, HURC, TBLT, ITW, PH, IR, XYL, DOV, SNA, and GGG
Should you be buying Ampco-Pittsburgh stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ampco-Pittsburgh include NN (NNBR), Hurco Companies (HURC), ToughBuilt Industries (TBLT), Illinois Tool Works (ITW), Parker-Hannifin (PH), Ingersoll Rand (IR), Xylem (XYL), Dover (DOV), Snap-on (SNA), and Graco (GGG). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.
Ampco-Pittsburgh vs.
NN (NASDAQ:NNBR) and Ampco-Pittsburgh (NYSE:AP) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.
NN received 10 more outperform votes than Ampco-Pittsburgh when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.01% of users gave Ampco-Pittsburgh an outperform vote while only 51.67% of users gave NN an outperform vote.
NN presently has a consensus target price of $6.00, suggesting a potential upside of 129.27%. Given NN's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe NN is more favorable than Ampco-Pittsburgh.
Ampco-Pittsburgh has lower revenue, but higher earnings than NN. NN is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ampco-Pittsburgh, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NN has a beta of 3.07, suggesting that its share price is 207% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ampco-Pittsburgh has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
In the previous week, NN had 7 more articles in the media than Ampco-Pittsburgh. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for NN and 1 mentions for Ampco-Pittsburgh. NN's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Ampco-Pittsburgh's score of 0.00 indicating that NN is being referred to more favorably in the media.
NN has a net margin of -8.05% compared to Ampco-Pittsburgh's net margin of -10.46%. NN's return on equity of -10.61% beat Ampco-Pittsburgh's return on equity.
53.9% of NN shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.2% of Ampco-Pittsburgh shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.9% of NN shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 31.8% of Ampco-Pittsburgh shares are owned by 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.
NN pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.7%. Ampco-Pittsburgh pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 19.1%. NN pays out -25.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ampco-Pittsburgh pays out -15.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Summary
NN beats Ampco-Pittsburgh on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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