POWW vs. ESCA, WRAP, NPK, SWBI, RGR, DOYU, COOK, SNBR, CDRO, and SGC
Should you be buying AMMO stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AMMO include Escalade (ESCA), Wrap Technologies (WRAP), National Presto Industries (NPK), Smith & Wesson Brands (SWBI), Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (RGR), DouYu International (DOYU), Traeger (COOK), Sleep Number (SNBR), Codere Online Luxembourg (CDRO), and Superior Group of Companies (SGC).
Escalade (NASDAQ:ESCA) and AMMO (NASDAQ:POWW) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Escalade has a net margin of 4.76% compared to Escalade's net margin of -8.88%. AMMO's return on equity of 7.74% beat Escalade's return on equity.
Escalade has higher revenue and earnings than AMMO. AMMO is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Escalade, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
65.2% of Escalade shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.4% of AMMO shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.8% of Escalade shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 25.0% of AMMO shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Escalade had 9 more articles in the media than AMMO. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Escalade and 2 mentions for AMMO. Escalade's average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat AMMO's score of 0.25 indicating that AMMO is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Escalade received 220 more outperform votes than AMMO when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.75% of users gave Escalade an outperform vote while only 60.71% of users gave AMMO an outperform vote.
Escalade has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AMMO has a beta of 0.41, suggesting that its stock price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Escalade beats AMMO on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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