PKOH vs. MEC, TRS, IPX, NWPX, BOOM, ALTG, GHM, CIX, DM, and LXFR
Should you be buying Park-Ohio stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Park-Ohio include Mayville Engineering (MEC), TriMas (TRS), IperionX (IPX), Northwest Pipe (NWPX), DMC Global (BOOM), Alta Equipment Group (ALTG), Graham (GHM), CompX International (CIX), Desktop Metal (DM), and Luxfer (LXFR).
Mayville Engineering (NYSE:MEC) and Park-Ohio (NASDAQ:PKOH) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and valuation.
Mayville Engineering has a net margin of 1.33% compared to Mayville Engineering's net margin of 0.70%. Mayville Engineering's return on equity of 13.93% beat Park-Ohio's return on equity.
Mayville Engineering presently has a consensus price target of $17.33, suggesting a potential upside of 23.19%. Given Park-Ohio's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Mayville Engineering is more favorable than Park-Ohio.
In the previous week, Park-Ohio had 17 more articles in the media than Mayville Engineering. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Park-Ohio and 1 mentions for Mayville Engineering. Mayville Engineering's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Park-Ohio's score of 0.00 indicating that Park-Ohio is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Mayville Engineering has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Park-Ohio has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Park-Ohio received 217 more outperform votes than Mayville Engineering when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.13% of users gave Park-Ohio an outperform vote while only 55.92% of users gave Mayville Engineering an outperform vote.
45.4% of Mayville Engineering shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.4% of Park-Ohio shares are held by institutional investors. 6.4% of Mayville Engineering shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 35.6% of Park-Ohio shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Mayville Engineering has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Park-Ohio. Park-Ohio is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mayville Engineering, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Park-Ohio beats Mayville Engineering on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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