CECO vs. KRNT, PRLB, DXPE, TWI, MYE, OFLX, ERII, XMTR, GRC, and IIIN
Should you be buying CECO Environmental stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CECO Environmental include Kornit Digital (KRNT), Proto Labs (PRLB), DXP Enterprises (DXPE), Titan International (TWI), Myers Industries (MYE), Omega Flex (OFLX), Energy Recovery (ERII), Xometry (XMTR), Gorman-Rupp (GRC), and Insteel Industries (IIIN). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
CECO Environmental (NASDAQ:CECO) and Kornit Digital (NASDAQ:KRNT) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.
Kornit Digital received 362 more outperform votes than CECO Environmental when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.68% of users gave CECO Environmental an outperform vote while only 70.54% of users gave Kornit Digital an outperform vote.
CECO Environmental currently has a consensus price target of $27.40, indicating a potential upside of 17.29%. Kornit Digital has a consensus price target of $24.67, indicating a potential upside of 47.62%. Given Kornit Digital's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Kornit Digital is more favorable than CECO Environmental.
CECO Environmental has a net margin of 2.23% compared to Kornit Digital's net margin of -29.28%. CECO Environmental's return on equity of 11.57% beat Kornit Digital's return on equity.
CECO Environmental has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kornit Digital has a beta of 1.88, indicating that its share price is 88% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, CECO Environmental had 44 more articles in the media than Kornit Digital. MarketBeat recorded 47 mentions for CECO Environmental and 3 mentions for Kornit Digital. Kornit Digital's average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat CECO Environmental's score of 0.27 indicating that Kornit Digital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
68.1% of CECO Environmental shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.8% of Kornit Digital shares are held by institutional investors. 16.9% of CECO Environmental shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Kornit Digital shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
CECO Environmental has higher revenue and earnings than Kornit Digital. Kornit Digital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CECO Environmental, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
CECO Environmental beats Kornit Digital on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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