GIC vs. MRC, DXPE, LNN, HY, CMCO, CDRE, HOLI, SCSC, APOG, and DNOW
Should you be buying Global Industrial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Global Industrial include MRC Global (MRC), DXP Enterprises (DXPE), Lindsay (LNN), Hyster-Yale Materials Handling (HY), Columbus McKinnon (CMCO), Cadre (CDRE), Hollysys Automation Technologies (HOLI), ScanSource (SCSC), Apogee Enterprises (APOG), and DNOW (DNOW). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Global Industrial (NYSE:GIC) and MRC Global (NYSE:MRC) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.
MRC Global has a consensus price target of $15.67, indicating a potential upside of 16.22%. Given MRC Global's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe MRC Global is more favorable than Global Industrial.
31.2% of Global Industrial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.0% of MRC Global shares are held by institutional investors. 65.3% of Global Industrial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.9% of MRC Global shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Global Industrial has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MRC Global has a beta of 2.01, indicating that its share price is 101% more volatile than the S&P 500.
MRC Global has higher revenue and earnings than Global Industrial. MRC Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Global Industrial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MRC Global received 402 more outperform votes than Global Industrial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.59% of users gave MRC Global an outperform vote while only 18.18% of users gave Global Industrial an outperform vote.
Global Industrial has a net margin of 5.34% compared to MRC Global's net margin of 2.97%. Global Industrial's return on equity of 28.39% beat MRC Global's return on equity.
In the previous week, MRC Global had 7 more articles in the media than Global Industrial. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for MRC Global and 3 mentions for Global Industrial. Global Industrial's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat MRC Global's score of 0.16 indicating that Global Industrial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
MRC Global beats Global Industrial on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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