UFI vs. CULP, GLAD, ACCO, EAF, MTW, HDSN, IPAX, NWPX, PKOH, and LXFR
Should you be buying Unifi stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Unifi include Culp (CULP), Gladstone Capital (GLAD), ACCO Brands (ACCO), GrafTech International (EAF), Manitowoc (MTW), Hudson Technologies (HDSN), Inflection Point Acquisition (IPAX), Northwest Pipe (NWPX), Park-Ohio (PKOH), and Luxfer (LXFR).
Unifi (NYSE:UFI) and Culp (NYSE:CULP) 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 media sentiment, community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and valuation.
Culp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Unifi. Culp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Unifi, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Culp has a net margin of -5.75% compared to Unifi's net margin of -10.19%. Unifi's return on equity of -15.15% beat Culp's return on equity.
Culp received 29 more outperform votes than Unifi when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.69% of users gave Unifi an outperform vote while only 52.23% of users gave Culp an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Culp had 10 more articles in the media than Unifi. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Culp and 1 mentions for Unifi. Unifi's average media sentiment score of 1.67 beat Culp's score of 0.34 indicating that Unifi is being referred to more favorably in the media.
67.7% of Unifi shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.1% of Culp shares are held by institutional investors. 12.9% of Unifi shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.6% of Culp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Unifi has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Culp has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Culp beats Unifi on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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