HIHO vs. AWX, ARTW, WATT, DGLY, HUBC, MWG, WKEY, BIMI, SQFT, and MOB
Should you be buying Highway stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Highway include Avalon (AWX), Art's-Way Manufacturing (ARTW), Energous (WATT), Digital Ally (DGLY), HUB Cyber Security (HUBC), Multi Ways (MWG), WISeKey International (WKEY), BIMI (BIMI), Presidio Property Trust (SQFT), and Mobilicom (MOB).
Avalon (NYSE:AWX) and Highway (NASDAQ:HIHO) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, profitability and dividends.
Avalon has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Highway has a beta of 0.1, indicating that its share price is 90% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Avalon and Avalon both had 1 articles in the media. Highway's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Avalon'saverage media sentiment score.
Avalon has a net margin of -1.33% compared to Avalon's net margin of -11.19%. Highway's return on equity of -2.99% beat Avalon's return on equity.
34.4% of Avalon shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.2% of Highway shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.1% of Avalon shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 32.1% of Highway shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Highway received 86 more outperform votes than Avalon when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.24% of users gave Highway an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Avalon an outperform vote.
Highway has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Avalon. Avalon is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Highway, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Highway beats Avalon on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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