APOG vs. CDRE, LNN, CMCO, SCSC, KALU, HY, TRS, HLIO, HOLI, and MRC
Should you be buying Apogee Enterprises stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Apogee Enterprises include Cadre (CDRE), Lindsay (LNN), Columbus McKinnon (CMCO), ScanSource (SCSC), Kaiser Aluminum (KALU), Hyster-Yale Materials Handling (HY), TriMas (TRS), Helios Technologies (HLIO), Hollysys Automation Technologies (HOLI), and MRC Global (MRC). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Apogee Enterprises (NASDAQ:APOG) and Cadre (NYSE:CDRE) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, risk, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
Apogee Enterprises has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cadre has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cadre has a net margin of 8.01% compared to Apogee Enterprises' net margin of 7.03%. Apogee Enterprises' return on equity of 23.84% beat Cadre's return on equity.
Apogee Enterprises pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Cadre pays an annual dividend of $0.35 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Apogee Enterprises pays out 22.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cadre pays out 34.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Apogee Enterprises is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Apogee Enterprises currently has a consensus price target of $50.00, suggesting a potential downside of 21.31%. Cadre has a consensus price target of $41.25, suggesting a potential upside of 20.65%. Given Cadre's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Cadre is more favorable than Apogee Enterprises.
Apogee Enterprises has higher revenue and earnings than Cadre. Apogee Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cadre, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Apogee Enterprises received 282 more outperform votes than Cadre when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.49% of users gave Apogee Enterprises an outperform vote while only 53.57% of users gave Cadre an outperform vote.
94.1% of Apogee Enterprises shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.0% of Cadre shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Apogee Enterprises shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 49.2% of Cadre shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Apogee Enterprises had 8 more articles in the media than Cadre. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Apogee Enterprises and 2 mentions for Cadre. Apogee Enterprises' average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Cadre's score of 0.07 indicating that Apogee Enterprises is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Apogee Enterprises beats Cadre on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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