APOG vs. HOLI, LNN, KALU, GIC, CDRE, HLIO, NSSC, DNOW, CMCO, and UFPT
Should you be buying Apogee Enterprises stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Apogee Enterprises include Hollysys Automation Technologies (HOLI), Lindsay (LNN), Kaiser Aluminum (KALU), Global Industrial (GIC), Cadre (CDRE), Helios Technologies (HLIO), Napco Security Technologies (NSSC), DNOW (DNOW), Columbus McKinnon (CMCO), and UFP Technologies (UFPT). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Hollysys Automation Technologies (NASDAQ:HOLI) and Apogee Enterprises (NASDAQ:APOG) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Hollysys Automation Technologies has a beta of 0.55, suggesting that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Apogee Enterprises has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Apogee Enterprises received 27 more outperform votes than Hollysys Automation Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.49% of users gave Apogee Enterprises an outperform vote while only 59.73% of users gave Hollysys Automation Technologies an outperform vote.
Hollysys Automation Technologies pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Apogee Enterprises pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Hollysys Automation Technologies pays out 23.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Apogee Enterprises pays out 22.2% 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 raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years. Apogee Enterprises is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Apogee Enterprises has a consensus price target of $50.00, indicating a potential downside of 22.98%. Given Hollysys Automation Technologies' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Apogee Enterprises is more favorable than Hollysys Automation Technologies.
Hollysys Automation Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Apogee Enterprises. Apogee Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hollysys Automation Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hollysys Automation Technologies has a net margin of 10.56% compared to Hollysys Automation Technologies' net margin of 7.03%. Hollysys Automation Technologies' return on equity of 23.84% beat Apogee Enterprises' return on equity.
In the previous week, Apogee Enterprises had 18 more articles in the media than Hollysys Automation Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Apogee Enterprises and 2 mentions for Hollysys Automation Technologies. Apogee Enterprises' average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Hollysys Automation Technologies' score of 0.19 indicating that Hollysys Automation Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
78.7% of Hollysys Automation Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.1% of Apogee Enterprises shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.7% of Hollysys Automation Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Apogee Enterprises shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Apogee Enterprises beats Hollysys Automation Technologies on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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