NNBR vs. EML, SSTI, TAYD, TPIC, FTEL, TWIN, DM, IPAX, EOSE, and LAKE
Should you be buying NN stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NN include Eastern (EML), SoundThinking (SSTI), Taylor Devices (TAYD), TPI Composites (TPIC), Fitell (FTEL), Twin Disc (TWIN), Desktop Metal (DM), Inflection Point Acquisition (IPAX), Eos Energy Enterprises (EOSE), and Lakeland Industries (LAKE). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Eastern (NASDAQ:EML) and NN (NASDAQ:NNBR) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends and institutional ownership.
Eastern has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NN has a beta of 3.04, meaning that its stock price is 204% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Eastern had 3 more articles in the media than NN. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Eastern and 2 mentions for NN. Eastern's average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat NN's score of 0.54 indicating that NN is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Eastern has a net margin of 3.69% compared to Eastern's net margin of -10.86%. NN's return on equity of 8.44% beat Eastern's return on equity.
77.0% of Eastern shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.9% of NN shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.0% of Eastern shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.9% of NN shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Eastern has higher earnings, but lower revenue than NN. NN is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eastern, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NN has a consensus price target of $5.00, suggesting a potential upside of 55.76%. Given Eastern's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe NN is more favorable than Eastern.
NN received 147 more outperform votes than Eastern when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 79.82% of users gave Eastern an outperform vote while only 51.67% of users gave NN an outperform vote.
Summary
Eastern beats NN on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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