NC vs. IRBT, WHR, HELE, AMR, ARLP, BTU, ARCH, NRP, SOC, and NESR
Should you be buying NACCO Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NACCO Industries include iRobot (IRBT), Whirlpool (WHR), Helen of Troy (HELE), Alpha Metallurgical Resources (AMR), Alliance Resource Partners (ARLP), Peabody Energy (BTU), Arch Resources (ARCH), Natural Resource Partners (NRP), Sable Offshore (SOC), and National Energy Services Reunited (NESR).
NACCO Industries (NYSE:NC) and iRobot (NASDAQ:IRBT) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, risk, community ranking and profitability.
NACCO Industries has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, iRobot has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, iRobot had 3 more articles in the media than NACCO Industries. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for iRobot and 1 mentions for NACCO Industries. iRobot's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat NACCO Industries' score of 0.00 indicating that iRobot is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
iRobot received 362 more outperform votes than NACCO Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.19% of users gave iRobot an outperform vote while only 63.87% of users gave NACCO Industries an outperform vote.
49.1% of NACCO Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.4% of iRobot shares are held by institutional investors. 41.3% of NACCO Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of iRobot shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
NACCO Industries has a net margin of -18.68% compared to iRobot's net margin of -24.42%. NACCO Industries' return on equity of 2.79% beat iRobot's return on equity.
NACCO Industries has higher earnings, but lower revenue than iRobot. NACCO Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than iRobot, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
iRobot has a consensus target price of $13.00, suggesting a potential upside of 43.49%. Given iRobot's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe iRobot is more favorable than NACCO Industries.
Summary
NACCO Industries and iRobot tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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