HIHO vs. ARTW, MWG, AWX, ADN, WATT, CLWT, HUBC, DGLY, SQFT, and MOB
Should you be buying Highway stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Highway include Art's-Way Manufacturing (ARTW), Multi Ways (MWG), Avalon (AWX), Advent Technologies (ADN), Energous (WATT), Euro Tech (CLWT), HUB Cyber Security (HUBC), Digital Ally (DGLY), Presidio Property Trust (SQFT), and Mobilicom (MOB). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Highway (NASDAQ:HIHO) and Art's-Way Manufacturing (NASDAQ:ARTW) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, risk, profitability, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and community ranking.
In the previous week, Art's-Way Manufacturing had 4 more articles in the media than Highway. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Art's-Way Manufacturing and 2 mentions for Highway. Highway's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Art's-Way Manufacturing's score of 0.72 indicating that Highway is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Art's-Way Manufacturing has higher revenue and earnings than Highway.
Art's-Way Manufacturing has a net margin of -0.64% compared to Highway's net margin of -11.19%. Art's-Way Manufacturing's return on equity of -0.09% beat Highway's return on equity.
Highway has a beta of 0.09, meaning that its share price is 91% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Art's-Way Manufacturing has a beta of 0.39, meaning that its share price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Highway received 5 more outperform votes than Art's-Way Manufacturing when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.24% of users gave Highway an outperform vote while only 38.94% of users gave Art's-Way Manufacturing an outperform vote.
13.2% of Highway shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.9% of Art's-Way Manufacturing shares are held by institutional investors. 32.1% of Highway shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 52.8% of Art's-Way Manufacturing shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Art's-Way Manufacturing beats Highway on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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