UFPT vs. CENX, POWL, DNOW, NSSC, GIC, HOLI, HLIO, PLUG, KALU, and B
Should you be buying UFP Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of UFP Technologies include Century Aluminum (CENX), Powell Industries (POWL), DNOW (DNOW), Napco Security Technologies (NSSC), Global Industrial (GIC), Hollysys Automation Technologies (HOLI), Helios Technologies (HLIO), Plug Power (PLUG), Kaiser Aluminum (KALU), and Barnes Group (B). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
UFP Technologies (NASDAQ:UFPT) and Century Aluminum (NASDAQ:CENX) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, media sentiment, valuation and earnings.
UFP Technologies has a net margin of 11.75% compared to Century Aluminum's net margin of 10.72%. UFP Technologies' return on equity of 17.75% beat Century Aluminum's return on equity.
UFP Technologies currently has a consensus target price of $238.50, indicating a potential downside of 9.02%. Century Aluminum has a consensus target price of $12.00, indicating a potential downside of 28.61%. Given UFP Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe UFP Technologies is more favorable than Century Aluminum.
UFP Technologies has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Century Aluminum has a beta of 2.67, indicating that its share price is 167% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Century Aluminum had 1 more articles in the media than UFP Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Century Aluminum and 11 mentions for UFP Technologies. UFP Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat Century Aluminum's score of 0.31 indicating that UFP Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Century Aluminum received 152 more outperform votes than UFP Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.03% of users gave UFP Technologies an outperform vote while only 51.00% of users gave Century Aluminum an outperform vote.
87.3% of UFP Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.6% of Century Aluminum shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.8% of UFP Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Century Aluminum shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
UFP Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Century Aluminum. Century Aluminum is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than UFP Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
UFP Technologies beats Century Aluminum on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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