WLDN vs. MG, VSEC, LYTS, CINT, LMB, NOA, SWIM, GLDD, MEC, and ORN
Should you be buying Willdan Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Willdan Group include Mistras Group (MG), VSE (VSEC), LSI Industries (LYTS), CI&T (CINT), Limbach (LMB), North American Construction Group (NOA), Latham Group (SWIM), Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), Mayville Engineering (MEC), and Orion Group (ORN).
Mistras Group (NYSE:MG) and Willdan Group (NASDAQ:WLDN) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
Mistras Group has a beta of 1.66, indicating that its share price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Willdan Group has a beta of 1.47, indicating that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.
74.9% of Mistras Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.3% of Willdan Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.3% of Mistras Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.8% of Willdan Group 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.
Willdan Group has a net margin of 2.44% compared to Willdan Group's net margin of -1.59%. Mistras Group's return on equity of 10.62% beat Willdan Group's return on equity.
Willdan Group has a consensus target price of $34.50, indicating a potential upside of 8.49%. Given Mistras Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Willdan Group is more favorable than Mistras Group.
Mistras Group received 35 more outperform votes than Willdan Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.60% of users gave Willdan Group an outperform vote while only 62.14% of users gave Mistras Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Willdan Group had 10 more articles in the media than Mistras Group. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Willdan Group and 1 mentions for Mistras Group. Willdan Group's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Mistras Group's score of 0.43 indicating that Mistras Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Willdan Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Mistras Group. Mistras Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Willdan Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Willdan Group beats Mistras Group on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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