IIIN vs. OFLX, KRT, EBF, KRNT, ITRN, CECO, HAYN, PRLB, DXPE, and ACCO
Should you be buying Insteel Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Insteel Industries include Omega Flex (OFLX), Karat Packaging (KRT), Ennis (EBF), Kornit Digital (KRNT), Ituran Location and Control (ITRN), CECO Environmental (CECO), Haynes International (HAYN), Proto Labs (PRLB), DXP Enterprises (DXPE), and ACCO Brands (ACCO).
Insteel Industries (NASDAQ:IIIN) and Omega Flex (NASDAQ:OFLX) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, valuation and earnings.
83.3% of Insteel Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.1% of Omega Flex shares are held by institutional investors. 5.6% of Insteel Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 67.1% of Omega Flex shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Omega Flex has a net margin of 18.03% compared to Insteel Industries' net margin of 4.24%. Omega Flex's return on equity of 24.76% beat Insteel Industries' return on equity.
Insteel Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Omega Flex. Insteel Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Omega Flex, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Insteel Industries received 17 more outperform votes than Omega Flex when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.26% of users gave Omega Flex an outperform vote while only 62.01% of users gave Insteel Industries an outperform vote.
Insteel Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Omega Flex pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Insteel Industries pays out 9.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Omega Flex pays out 69.5% 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.
Insteel Industries has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Omega Flex has a beta of 0.37, meaning that its share price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Omega Flex had 1 more articles in the media than Insteel Industries. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Omega Flex and 0 mentions for Insteel Industries. Omega Flex's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Insteel Industries' score of 0.00 indicating that Omega Flex is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Omega Flex beats Insteel Industries on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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