CDRE vs. APOG, HOLI, GIC, LNN, CMCO, KALU, DNOW, HLIO, CENX, and XRX
Should you be buying Cadre stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cadre include Apogee Enterprises (APOG), Hollysys Automation Technologies (HOLI), Global Industrial (GIC), Lindsay (LNN), Columbus McKinnon (CMCO), Kaiser Aluminum (KALU), DNOW (DNOW), Helios Technologies (HLIO), Century Aluminum (CENX), and Xerox (XRX). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Apogee Enterprises (NASDAQ:APOG) and Cadre (NYSE:CDRE) 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 dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, profitability and valuation.
Apogee Enterprises has higher revenue and earnings than Cadre. Apogee Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cadre, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
94.1% of Apogee Enterprises shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.0% of Cadre shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Apogee Enterprises shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 49.2% of Cadre shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Apogee Enterprises pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Cadre pays an annual dividend of $0.35 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Apogee Enterprises pays out 22.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cadre pays out 34.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Apogee Enterprises has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years and Cadre has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Apogee Enterprises is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Apogee Enterprises received 282 more outperform votes than Cadre when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.49% of users gave Apogee Enterprises an outperform vote while only 53.57% of users gave Cadre an outperform vote.
Cadre has a net margin of 7.58% compared to Cadre's net margin of 7.03%. Cadre's return on equity of 23.84% beat Apogee Enterprises' return on equity.
Apogee Enterprises currently has a consensus price target of $50.00, indicating a potential downside of 25.10%. Cadre has a consensus price target of $41.25, indicating a potential upside of 32.89%. Given Apogee Enterprises' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Cadre is more favorable than Apogee Enterprises.
In the previous week, Cadre had 11 more articles in the media than Apogee Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Cadre and 13 mentions for Apogee Enterprises. Cadre's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat Apogee Enterprises' score of 0.11 indicating that Apogee Enterprises is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Apogee Enterprises has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cadre has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Apogee Enterprises beats Cadre on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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