ARRY vs. ROCK, OGE, IDA, POR, OTTR, ALE, PNM, MGEE, HE, and UTL
Should you be buying Array Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Array Technologies include Gibraltar Industries (ROCK), OGE Energy (OGE), IDACORP (IDA), Portland General Electric (POR), Otter Tail (OTTR), ALLETE (ALE), PNM Resources (PNM), MGE Energy (MGEE), Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE), and Unitil (UTL).
Gibraltar Industries (NASDAQ:ROCK) and Array Technologies (NASDAQ:ARRY) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Gibraltar Industries has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Array Technologies has a beta of 1.7, indicating that its stock price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Gibraltar Industries and Gibraltar Industries both had 4 articles in the media. Gibraltar Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.65 beat Array Technologies' score of 1.25 indicating that Array Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Array Technologies received 294 more outperform votes than Gibraltar Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.90% of users gave Array Technologies an outperform vote while only 64.34% of users gave Gibraltar Industries an outperform vote.
Array Technologies has a consensus price target of $19.75, suggesting a potential upside of 46.40%. Given Gibraltar Industries' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Array Technologies is more favorable than Gibraltar Industries.
Array Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Gibraltar Industries. Gibraltar Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Array Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gibraltar Industries has a net margin of 8.31% compared to Gibraltar Industries' net margin of 8.09%. Gibraltar Industries' return on equity of 59.49% beat Array Technologies' return on equity.
98.4% of Gibraltar Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Gibraltar Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Array Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Array Technologies beats Gibraltar Industries on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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