DNOW vs. HLIO, KALU, CENX, XRX, NSSC, HOLI, APOG, HEES, CDRE, and PLUG
Should you be buying DNOW stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DNOW include Helios Technologies (HLIO), Kaiser Aluminum (KALU), Century Aluminum (CENX), Xerox (XRX), Napco Security Technologies (NSSC), Hollysys Automation Technologies (HOLI), Apogee Enterprises (APOG), H&E Equipment Services (HEES), Cadre (CDRE), and Plug Power (PLUG). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Helios Technologies (NASDAQ:HLIO) and DNOW (NYSE:DNOW) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, dividends, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Helios Technologies has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DNOW has a beta of 1.48, meaning that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
94.7% of Helios Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.6% of DNOW shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Helios Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of DNOW shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, DNOW had 2 more articles in the media than Helios Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for DNOW and 17 mentions for Helios Technologies. DNOW's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Helios Technologies' score of 0.19 indicating that Helios Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
DNOW received 261 more outperform votes than Helios Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.68% of users gave DNOW an outperform vote while only 43.56% of users gave Helios Technologies an outperform vote.
DNOW has a net margin of 10.30% compared to DNOW's net margin of 3.93%. Helios Technologies' return on equity of 10.39% beat DNOW's return on equity.
Helios Technologies presently has a consensus target price of $67.67, suggesting a potential upside of 32.45%. DNOW has a consensus target price of $16.50, suggesting a potential upside of 20.79%. Given DNOW's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Helios Technologies is more favorable than DNOW.
DNOW has higher revenue and earnings than Helios Technologies. DNOW is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Helios Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
DNOW beats Helios Technologies on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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