LYTS vs. GLDD, WLDN, LMB, SWIM, CINT, NOA, MEC, ORN, CSTE, and SLND
Should you be buying LSI Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LSI Industries include Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), Willdan Group (WLDN), Limbach (LMB), Latham Group (SWIM), CI&T (CINT), North American Construction Group (NOA), Mayville Engineering (MEC), Orion Group (ORN), Caesarstone (CSTE), and Southland (SLND). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (NASDAQ:GLDD) and LSI Industries (NASDAQ:LYTS) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, community ranking and earnings.
LSI Industries has a consensus price target of $20.33, suggesting a potential upside of 33.60%. Given Great Lakes Dredge & Dock's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe LSI Industries is more favorable than Great Lakes Dredge & Dock.
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, LSI Industries has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock had 9 more articles in the media than LSI Industries. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Great Lakes Dredge & Dock and 2 mentions for LSI Industries. LSI Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Great Lakes Dredge & Dock's score of 1.12 indicating that Great Lakes Dredge & Dock is being referred to more favorably in the media.
LSI Industries has a net margin of 5.97% compared to LSI Industries' net margin of 2.36%. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock's return on equity of 14.93% beat LSI Industries' return on equity.
89.1% of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.9% of LSI Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.7% of LSI Industries shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock and LSI Industries both received 284 outperform votes by MarketBeat users. However, 67.14% of users gave LSI Industries an outperform vote while only 59.66% of users gave Great Lakes Dredge & Dock an outperform vote.
LSI Industries has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Great Lakes Dredge & Dock. LSI Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Great Lakes Dredge & Dock, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
LSI Industries beats Great Lakes Dredge & Dock on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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