AP vs. NNBR, PLL, EML, BOOM, HURC, TBLT, PH, ITW, IR, and XYL
Should you be buying Ampco-Pittsburgh stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ampco-Pittsburgh include NN (NNBR), Piedmont Lithium (PLL), Eastern (EML), DMC Global (BOOM), Hurco Companies (HURC), ToughBuilt Industries (TBLT), Parker-Hannifin (PH), Illinois Tool Works (ITW), Ingersoll Rand (IR), and Xylem (XYL). 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 contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
53.9% of NN shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.2% of Ampco-Pittsburgh shares are held by institutional investors. 8.9% of NN shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 31.8% of Ampco-Pittsburgh shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
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 received 10 more outperform votes than Ampco-Pittsburgh when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.99% of users gave Ampco-Pittsburgh an outperform vote while only 51.67% of users gave NN an outperform vote.
NN presently has a consensus price target of $6.00, suggesting a potential upside of 81.82%. Given NN's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe NN is more favorable than Ampco-Pittsburgh.
NN pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.5%. Ampco-Pittsburgh pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.3%. NN pays out -25.7% 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.
NN has a beta of 2.97, indicating that its share price is 197% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ampco-Pittsburgh has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, NN had 1 more articles in the media than Ampco-Pittsburgh. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for NN and 0 mentions for Ampco-Pittsburgh. NN's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Ampco-Pittsburgh's score of 0.00 indicating that NN is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
NN beats Ampco-Pittsburgh on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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