ASLE vs. LAWS, KAMN, DSGR, WLFC, HDSN, UGRO, AIT, EVEX, TGI, and EH
Should you be buying AerSale stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AerSale include Lawson Products (LAWS), Kaman (KAMN), Distribution Solutions Group (DSGR), Willis Lease Finance (WLFC), Hudson Technologies (HDSN), urban-gro (UGRO), Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT), EVE (EVEX), Triumph Group (TGI), and EHang (EH).
Lawson Products (NASDAQ:LAWS) and AerSale (NASDAQ:ASLE) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.
88.2% of Lawson Products shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.5% of AerSale shares are held by institutional investors. 51.8% of Lawson Products shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 37.3% of AerSale shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Lawson Products had 1 more articles in the media than AerSale. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Lawson Products and 4 mentions for AerSale. Lawson Products' average media sentiment score of 1.59 beat AerSale's score of 0.44 indicating that AerSale is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lawson Products has a net margin of 3.42% compared to Lawson Products' net margin of 0.20%. AerSale's return on equity of 20.28% beat Lawson Products' return on equity.
Lawson Products has higher revenue and earnings than AerSale. AerSale is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lawson Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lawson Products has a beta of 0.98, meaning that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AerSale has a beta of 0.23, meaning that its stock price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Lawson Products received 320 more outperform votes than AerSale when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.77% of users gave Lawson Products an outperform vote while only 45.00% of users gave AerSale an outperform vote.
AerSale has a consensus target price of $17.00, suggesting a potential upside of 124.27%.
Summary
Lawson Products beats AerSale on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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