TAYD vs. SSTI, NNBR, EML, PESI, TPIC, EOSE, TWIN, ADN, DM, and MNTX
Should you be buying Taylor Devices stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Taylor Devices include SoundThinking (SSTI), NN (NNBR), Eastern (EML), Perma-Fix Environmental Services (PESI), TPI Composites (TPIC), Eos Energy Enterprises (EOSE), Twin Disc (TWIN), Advent Technologies (ADN), Desktop Metal (DM), and Manitex International (MNTX). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Taylor Devices (NASDAQ:TAYD) and SoundThinking (NASDAQ:SSTI) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
SoundThinking has a consensus price target of $23.00, indicating a potential upside of 60.28%. Given SoundThinking's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe SoundThinking is more favorable than Taylor Devices.
Taylor Devices has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SoundThinking has a beta of 1.18, indicating that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Taylor Devices has higher earnings, but lower revenue than SoundThinking. SoundThinking is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Taylor Devices, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SoundThinking received 251 more outperform votes than Taylor Devices when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.33% of users gave Taylor Devices an outperform vote while only 68.40% of users gave SoundThinking an outperform vote.
Taylor Devices has a net margin of 19.87% compared to SoundThinking's net margin of -3.94%. Taylor Devices' return on equity of 16.84% beat SoundThinking's return on equity.
In the previous week, SoundThinking had 33 more articles in the media than Taylor Devices. MarketBeat recorded 36 mentions for SoundThinking and 3 mentions for Taylor Devices. Taylor Devices' average media sentiment score of 0.26 beat SoundThinking's score of -0.10 indicating that Taylor Devices is being referred to more favorably in the media.
17.6% of Taylor Devices shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.7% of SoundThinking shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.8% of Taylor Devices shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.7% of SoundThinking shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Taylor Devices beats SoundThinking on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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