CSTM vs. UNF, GEF, ATS, JBT, REZI, BRC, ALRM, YOU, KAI, and AIN
Should you be buying Constellium stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Constellium include UniFirst (UNF), Greif (GEF), ATS (ATS), John Bean Technologies (JBT), Resideo Technologies (REZI), Brady (BRC), Alarm.com (ALRM), Clear Secure (YOU), Kadant (KAI), and Albany International (AIN). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
UniFirst (NYSE:UNF) and Constellium (NYSE:CSTM) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings and profitability.
UniFirst currently has a consensus price target of $177.75, suggesting a potential upside of 8.23%. Constellium has a consensus price target of $25.40, suggesting a potential upside of 22.71%. Given UniFirst's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Constellium is more favorable than UniFirst.
In the previous week, Constellium had 12 more articles in the media than UniFirst. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Constellium and 6 mentions for UniFirst. Constellium's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat UniFirst's score of -0.25 indicating that UniFirst is being referred to more favorably in the media.
78.2% of UniFirst shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.6% of Constellium shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of UniFirst shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Constellium shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
UniFirst has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Constellium has a beta of 1.71, indicating that its share price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Constellium received 141 more outperform votes than UniFirst when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.45% of users gave Constellium an outperform vote while only 53.12% of users gave UniFirst an outperform vote.
Constellium has higher revenue and earnings than UniFirst. Constellium is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than UniFirst, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
UniFirst has a net margin of 4.92% compared to UniFirst's net margin of 1.73%. UniFirst's return on equity of 15.68% beat Constellium's return on equity.
Summary
Constellium beats UniFirst on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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