GHM vs. TWIN, IPX, LXFR, PKOH, NWPX, DM, BOOM, IRBT, ALTG, and IPAX
Should you be buying Graham stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Graham include Twin Disc (TWIN), IperionX (IPX), Luxfer (LXFR), Park-Ohio (PKOH), Northwest Pipe (NWPX), Desktop Metal (DM), DMC Global (BOOM), iRobot (IRBT), Alta Equipment Group (ALTG), and Inflection Point Acquisition (IPAX). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Graham (NYSE:GHM) and Twin Disc (NASDAQ:TWIN) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation and media sentiment.
Twin Disc has higher revenue and earnings than Graham. Twin Disc is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Graham, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Twin Disc has a net margin of 4.13% compared to Graham's net margin of 1.52%. Twin Disc's return on equity of 8.42% beat Graham's return on equity.
Graham has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Twin Disc has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Twin Disc received 12 more outperform votes than Graham when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.04% of users gave Graham an outperform vote while only 61.82% of users gave Twin Disc an outperform vote.
69.5% of Graham shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.3% of Twin Disc shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.4% of Graham shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 23.3% of Twin Disc shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Graham had 3 more articles in the media than Twin Disc. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Graham and 2 mentions for Twin Disc. Twin Disc's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Graham's score of 0.09 indicating that Twin Disc is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Twin Disc beats Graham on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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