NNBR vs. EML, IRBT, TAYD, SSTI, IPAX, TWIN, PESI, VTNR, EOSE, and QUAD
Should you be buying NN stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NN include Eastern (EML), iRobot (IRBT), Taylor Devices (TAYD), SoundThinking (SSTI), Inflection Point Acquisition (IPAX), Twin Disc (TWIN), Perma-Fix Environmental Services (PESI), Vertex Energy (VTNR), Eos Energy Enterprises (EOSE), and Quad/Graphics (QUAD). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Eastern (NASDAQ:EML) and NN (NASDAQ:NNBR) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, community ranking, risk, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
NN received 147 more outperform votes than Eastern when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 79.82% of users gave Eastern an outperform vote while only 51.67% of users gave NN an outperform vote.
77.0% of Eastern shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.9% of NN shares are held by institutional investors. 17.0% of Eastern shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.9% of NN shares are held 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.
Eastern has a net margin of 3.14% compared to Eastern's net margin of -10.25%. NN's return on equity of 8.80% beat Eastern's return on equity.
NN has a consensus target price of $5.00, suggesting a potential upside of 34.41%. Given Eastern's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe NN is more favorable than Eastern.
In the previous week, Eastern had 5 more articles in the media than NN. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Eastern and 3 mentions for NN. Eastern's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat NN's score of -0.21 indicating that NN is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Eastern has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NN has a beta of 3.02, suggesting that its stock price is 202% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Eastern has higher earnings, but lower revenue than NN. NN is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eastern, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Eastern beats NN on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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