LXFR vs. PKOH, IPX, NWPX, GHM, IRBT, ALTG, CIX, BOOM, QUAD, and HDSN
Should you be buying Luxfer stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Luxfer include Park-Ohio (PKOH), IperionX (IPX), Northwest Pipe (NWPX), Graham (GHM), iRobot (IRBT), Alta Equipment Group (ALTG), CompX International (CIX), DMC Global (BOOM), Quad/Graphics (QUAD), and Hudson Technologies (HDSN). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Park-Ohio (NASDAQ:PKOH) and Luxfer (NYSE:LXFR) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Luxfer had 2 more articles in the media than Park-Ohio. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Luxfer and 2 mentions for Park-Ohio. Park-Ohio's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat Luxfer's score of 0.00 indicating that Luxfer is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Park-Ohio has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Luxfer has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Park-Ohio has higher revenue and earnings than Luxfer.
51.4% of Park-Ohio shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.8% of Luxfer shares are owned by institutional investors. 33.0% of Park-Ohio shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Luxfer shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Park-Ohio pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Luxfer pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Park-Ohio pays out 54.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Park-Ohio received 16 more outperform votes than Luxfer when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.20% of users gave Luxfer an outperform vote while only 61.13% of users gave Park-Ohio an outperform vote.
Park-Ohio has a net margin of 0.70% compared to Park-Ohio's net margin of 0.08%. Luxfer's return on equity of 13.93% beat Park-Ohio's return on equity.
Summary
Park-Ohio and Luxfer tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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