CEAD vs. EFOI, WLGS, ENG, ILAG, TBLT, INHD, RETO, CPAC, OESX, and TISI
Should you be buying CEA Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CEA Industries include Energy Focus (EFOI), WANG & LEE GROUP (WLGS), ENGlobal (ENG), Intelligent Living Application Group (ILAG), ToughBuilt Industries (TBLT), Inno (INHD), ReTo Eco-Solutions (RETO), Cementos Pacasmayo S.A.A. (CPAC), Orion Energy Systems (OESX), and Team (TISI). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
CEA Industries (NASDAQ:CEAD) and Energy Focus (NASDAQ:EFOI) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation and dividends.
CEA Industries has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Energy Focus has a beta of 1.9, suggesting that its share price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CEA Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Energy Focus. CEA Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Energy Focus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Energy Focus had 1 more articles in the media than CEA Industries. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Energy Focus and 3 mentions for CEA Industries. CEA Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.59 beat Energy Focus' score of 1.18 indicating that CEA Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Energy Focus received 252 more outperform votes than CEA Industries when rated by MarketBeat users.
21.6% of CEA Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.7% of Energy Focus shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of CEA Industries shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 33.6% of Energy Focus shares are owned 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.
CEA Industries has a net margin of -42.13% compared to Energy Focus' net margin of -75.09%. CEA Industries' return on equity of -21.48% beat Energy Focus' return on equity.
Summary
CEA Industries beats Energy Focus on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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