AWX vs. WATT, MWG, HIHO, ARTW, ADN, HUBC, DGLY, CLWT, MOB, and APDN
Should you be buying Avalon stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Avalon include Energous (WATT), Multi Ways (MWG), Highway (HIHO), Art's-Way Manufacturing (ARTW), Advent Technologies (ADN), HUB Cyber Security (HUBC), Digital Ally (DGLY), Euro Tech (CLWT), Mobilicom (MOB), and Applied DNA Sciences (APDN). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Energous (NASDAQ:WATT) and Avalon (NYSE:AWX) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.
Energous has a beta of 2.64, indicating that its share price is 164% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Avalon has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Energous received 384 more outperform votes than Avalon when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.20% of users gave Energous an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Avalon an outperform vote.
Avalon has a net margin of -2.20% compared to Avalon's net margin of -4,077.47%. Energous' return on equity of -4.88% beat Avalon's return on equity.
Energous presently has a consensus target price of $2.00, indicating a potential upside of 36.05%. Given Avalon's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Energous is more favorable than Avalon.
In the previous week, Energous had 1 more articles in the media than Avalon. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Energous and 1 mentions for Avalon. Avalon's average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Energous' score of 0.00 indicating that Energous is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Avalon has higher revenue and earnings than Energous. Avalon is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Energous, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
4.4% of Energous shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.4% of Avalon shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Energous shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.1% of Avalon shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Energous and Avalon tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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