CINT vs. LYTS, WLDN, SWIM, NOA, LMB, MEC, GLDD, ORN, SLND, and CSTE
Should you be buying CI&T stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CI&T include LSI Industries (LYTS), Willdan Group (WLDN), Latham Group (SWIM), North American Construction Group (NOA), Limbach (LMB), Mayville Engineering (MEC), Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), Orion Group (ORN), Southland (SLND), and Caesarstone (CSTE). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
CI&T (NYSE:CINT) and LSI Industries (NASDAQ:LYTS) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, valuation, profitability, community ranking, risk and institutional ownership.
CI&T currently has a consensus target price of $5.21, indicating a potential upside of 54.06%. LSI Industries has a consensus target price of $20.33, indicating a potential upside of 28.77%. Given CI&T's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe CI&T is more favorable than LSI Industries.
CI&T has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LSI Industries has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
CI&T has a net margin of 7.11% compared to LSI Industries' net margin of 5.97%. CI&T's return on equity of 15.96% beat LSI Industries' return on equity.
LSI Industries received 274 more outperform votes than CI&T when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.14% of users gave LSI Industries an outperform vote while only 34.48% of users gave CI&T an outperform vote.
CI&T has higher revenue and earnings than LSI Industries. CI&T is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LSI Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
92.4% of CI&T shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.9% of LSI Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.7% of LSI Industries shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, CI&T had 8 more articles in the media than LSI Industries. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for CI&T and 3 mentions for LSI Industries. CI&T's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat LSI Industries' score of 0.46 indicating that CI&T is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
CI&T and LSI Industries tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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