ERII vs. ACMR, DM, XMTR, GRC, MYE, TWI, DXPE, PRLB, MRC, and ASTE
Should you be buying Energy Recovery stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Energy Recovery include ACM Research (ACMR), Desktop Metal (DM), Xometry (XMTR), Gorman-Rupp (GRC), Myers Industries (MYE), Titan International (TWI), DXP Enterprises (DXPE), Proto Labs (PRLB), MRC Global (MRC), and Astec Industries (ASTE).
Energy Recovery (NASDAQ:ERII) and ACM Research (NASDAQ:ACMR) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings and media sentiment.
Energy Recovery presently has a consensus target price of $25.33, suggesting a potential upside of 85.73%. ACM Research has a consensus target price of $31.88, suggesting a potential upside of 18.07%. Given Energy Recovery's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Energy Recovery is more favorable than ACM Research.
Energy Recovery has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ACM Research has a beta of 1.42, meaning that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Energy Recovery had 5 more articles in the media than ACM Research. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Energy Recovery and 15 mentions for ACM Research. ACM Research's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Energy Recovery's score of 0.58 indicating that ACM Research is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ACM Research has higher revenue and earnings than Energy Recovery. ACM Research is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Energy Recovery, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
83.6% of Energy Recovery shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.8% of ACM Research shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.7% of Energy Recovery shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 33.6% of ACM Research 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.
Energy Recovery has a net margin of 15.38% compared to ACM Research's net margin of 13.87%. Energy Recovery's return on equity of 9.82% beat ACM Research's return on equity.
Energy Recovery received 138 more outperform votes than ACM Research when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.84% of users gave ACM Research an outperform vote while only 59.83% of users gave Energy Recovery an outperform vote.
Summary
Energy Recovery beats ACM Research on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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