NOA vs. LMB, CINT, GLDD, WLDN, LYTS, SWIM, MEC, ORN, AGX, and BXC
Should you be buying North American Construction Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of North American Construction Group include Limbach (LMB), CI&T (CINT), Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), Willdan Group (WLDN), LSI Industries (LYTS), Latham Group (SWIM), Mayville Engineering (MEC), Orion Group (ORN), Argan (AGX), and BlueLinx (BXC). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Limbach (NASDAQ:LMB) and North American Construction Group (NYSE:NOA) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, valuation, community ranking and earnings.
North American Construction Group has a net margin of 5.21% compared to North American Construction Group's net margin of 4.93%. North American Construction Group's return on equity of 21.75% beat Limbach's return on equity.
North American Construction Group received 165 more outperform votes than Limbach when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.74% of users gave North American Construction Group an outperform vote while only 55.76% of users gave Limbach an outperform vote.
Limbach currently has a consensus price target of $39.00, suggesting a potential downside of 19.35%. North American Construction Group has a consensus price target of $39.00, suggesting a potential upside of 92.93%. Given Limbach's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe North American Construction Group is more favorable than Limbach.
North American Construction Group has higher revenue and earnings than Limbach. North American Construction Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Limbach, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Limbach has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, North American Construction Group has a beta of 1.52, suggesting that its stock price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Limbach had 12 more articles in the media than North American Construction Group. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Limbach and 2 mentions for North American Construction Group. Limbach's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat North American Construction Group's score of 0.82 indicating that North American Construction Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
55.9% of Limbach shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.0% of North American Construction Group shares are held by institutional investors. 10.2% of Limbach shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.7% of North American Construction Group shares are held 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
North American Construction Group beats Limbach on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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