SWIM vs. BBCP, MEC, ORN, LYTS, WLDN, CSTE, GLDD, SLND, SMID, and CINT
Should you be buying Latham Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Latham Group include Concrete Pumping (BBCP), Mayville Engineering (MEC), Orion Group (ORN), LSI Industries (LYTS), Willdan Group (WLDN), Caesarstone (CSTE), Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), Southland (SLND), Smith-Midland (SMID), and CI&T (CINT).
Latham Group (NASDAQ:SWIM) and Concrete Pumping (NASDAQ:BBCP) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Latham Group presently has a consensus target price of $3.53, suggesting a potential downside of 7.50%. Concrete Pumping has a consensus target price of $8.50, suggesting a potential upside of 22.30%. Given Concrete Pumping's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Concrete Pumping is more favorable than Latham Group.
In the previous week, Latham Group had 8 more articles in the media than Concrete Pumping. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Latham Group and 2 mentions for Concrete Pumping. Concrete Pumping's average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat Latham Group's score of 0.84 indicating that Concrete Pumping is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
84.0% of Latham Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.2% of Concrete Pumping shares are held by institutional investors. 7.6% of Latham Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 27.4% of Concrete Pumping shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Concrete Pumping received 89 more outperform votes than Latham Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.08% of users gave Concrete Pumping an outperform vote while only 37.21% of users gave Latham Group an outperform vote.
Concrete Pumping has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Latham Group. Concrete Pumping is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Latham Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Latham Group has a beta of 1.67, meaning that its stock price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Concrete Pumping has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Concrete Pumping has a net margin of 4.81% compared to Latham Group's net margin of 0.76%. Concrete Pumping's return on equity of 7.76% beat Latham Group's return on equity.
Summary
Concrete Pumping beats Latham Group on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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