EFOI vs. CEAD, WLGS, ENG, ILAG, INHD, SUGP, OESX, LYTS, AYI, and TBLT
Should you be buying Energy Focus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Energy Focus include CEA Industries (CEAD), WANG & LEE GROUP (WLGS), ENGlobal (ENG), Intelligent Living Application Group (ILAG), Inno (INHD), SU Group (SUGP), Orion Energy Systems (OESX), LSI Industries (LYTS), Acuity Brands (AYI), and ToughBuilt Industries (TBLT). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Energy Focus (NASDAQ:EFOI) and CEA Industries (NASDAQ:CEAD) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking and earnings.
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.
3.7% of Energy Focus shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.6% of CEA Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 33.6% of Energy Focus shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of CEA Industries shares are owned by company 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.
Energy Focus has a beta of 1.9, indicating that its share price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CEA Industries has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its share price is 32% less 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 and Energy Focus both had 3 articles in the media. CEA Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.39 beat Energy Focus' score of 0.04 indicating that CEA Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Energy Focus received 252 more outperform votes than CEA Industries when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
CEA Industries beats Energy Focus on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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