ORN vs. GLDD, SLND, MEC, CSTE, SMID, SWIM, WLDN, LYTS, CINT, and CHCI
Should you be buying Orion Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Orion Group include Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), Southland (SLND), Mayville Engineering (MEC), Caesarstone (CSTE), Smith-Midland (SMID), Latham Group (SWIM), Willdan Group (WLDN), LSI Industries (LYTS), CI&T (CINT), and Comstock Holding Companies (CHCI). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (NASDAQ:GLDD) and Orion Group (NYSE:ORN) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, earnings, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Orion Group has a consensus target price of $11.75, suggesting a potential upside of 25.40%. Given Great Lakes Dredge & Dock's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Orion Group is more favorable than Great Lakes Dredge & Dock.
Orion Group received 183 more outperform votes than Great Lakes Dredge & Dock when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.87% of users gave Orion Group an outperform vote while only 59.71% of users gave Great Lakes Dredge & Dock an outperform vote.
89.1% of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.3% of Orion Group shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.3% of Orion Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Orion Group had 3 more articles in the media than Great Lakes Dredge & Dock. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Orion Group and 5 mentions for Great Lakes Dredge & Dock. Orion Group's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Great Lakes Dredge & Dock's score of 0.82 indicating that Great Lakes Dredge & Dock is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has a net margin of 6.05% compared to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock's net margin of -1.59%. Orion Group's return on equity of 8.83% beat Great Lakes Dredge & Dock's return on equity.
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Orion Group. Orion Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Great Lakes Dredge & Dock, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has a beta of 1, meaning that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Orion Group has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock beats Orion Group on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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