BW vs. CIX, SMID, VATE, ACU, CSTE, RECT, MTEN, TPCS, NWGL, and VSTE
Should you be buying Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises include CompX International (CIX), Smith-Midland (SMID), INNOVATE (VATE), Acme United (ACU), Caesarstone (CSTE), Rectitude (RECT), Mingteng International (MTEN), TechPrecision (TPCS), Nature Wood Group (NWGL), and Vast Renewables (VSTE). These companies are all part of the "construction materials" industry.
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises vs.
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises (NYSE:BW) and CompX International (NYSE:CIX) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, risk, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises has a beta of 1.73, indicating that its stock price is 73% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CompX International has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises presently has a consensus target price of $4.50, indicating a potential upside of 293.01%. Given Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises is more favorable than CompX International.
CompX International has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises. Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CompX International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, CompX International had 1 more articles in the media than Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for CompX International and 0 mentions for Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises. CompX International's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises' score of 0.00 indicating that CompX International is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
83.2% of Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.5% of CompX International shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.3% of Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of CompX International shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises received 354 more outperform votes than CompX International when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave CompX International an outperform vote while only 53.55% of users gave Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises an outperform vote.
CompX International has a net margin of 12.48% compared to Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises' net margin of -6.77%. CompX International's return on equity of 11.51% beat Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises' return on equity.
Summary
CompX International beats Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:BW) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
