MEC vs. ORN, CSTE, SLND, SWIM, SMID, LYTS, WLDN, CHCI, GLT, and CINT
Should you be buying Mayville Engineering stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mayville Engineering include Orion Group (ORN), Caesarstone (CSTE), Southland (SLND), Latham Group (SWIM), Smith-Midland (SMID), LSI Industries (LYTS), Willdan Group (WLDN), Comstock Holding Companies (CHCI), Glatfelter (GLT), and CI&T (CINT). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Mayville Engineering (NYSE:MEC) and Orion Group (NYSE:ORN) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Orion Group received 383 more outperform votes than Mayville Engineering when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.87% of users gave Orion Group an outperform vote while only 56.21% of users gave Mayville Engineering an outperform vote.
45.4% of Mayville Engineering shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.3% of Orion Group shares are held by institutional investors. 6.4% of Mayville Engineering shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.3% of Orion Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Mayville Engineering presently has a consensus target price of $17.33, suggesting a potential upside of 6.93%. Orion Group has a consensus target price of $11.75, suggesting a potential upside of 33.67%. Given Orion Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Orion Group is more favorable than Mayville Engineering.
Mayville Engineering has a net margin of 1.40% compared to Orion Group's net margin of -1.59%. Mayville Engineering's return on equity of 6.01% beat Orion Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Mayville Engineering had 5 more articles in the media than Orion Group. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Mayville Engineering and 8 mentions for Orion Group. Orion Group's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Mayville Engineering's score of 0.67 indicating that Orion Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Mayville Engineering has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Orion Group has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Mayville Engineering has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Orion Group. Orion Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mayville Engineering, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Mayville Engineering beats Orion Group on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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