Head-To-Head Survey: CECO Environmental (CECO) & Its Peers

CECO Environmental (NASDAQ:CECO) is one of 436 publicly-traded companies in the “Machinery” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its competitors? We will compare CECO Environmental to similar businesses based on the strength of its dividends, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation and earnings.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for CECO Environmental and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CECO Environmental	1	0	8	1	2.90
CECO Environmental Competitors	4187	14672	18170	801	2.41

CECO Environmental currently has a consensus price target of $102.38, indicating a potential upside of 102.72%. As a group, “Machinery” companies have a potential upside of 31.94%. Given CECO Environmental’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe CECO Environmental is more favorable than its competitors.

Profitability

This table compares CECO Environmental and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CECO Environmental	-3.39%	7.36%	3.41%
CECO Environmental Competitors	-1,044.47%	-15.12%	0.54%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

68.1% of CECO Environmental shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.7% of shares of all “Machinery” companies are held by institutional investors. 16.9% of CECO Environmental shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.2% of shares of all “Machinery” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility and Risk

CECO Environmental has a beta of 1.5, indicating that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CECO Environmental’s competitors have a beta of 4.69, indicating that their average share price is 369% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares CECO Environmental and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
CECO Environmental	$903.17 million	$50.05 million	-73.19
CECO Environmental Competitors	$4.70 billion	$363.05 million	3.42

CECO Environmental’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than CECO Environmental. CECO Environmental is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Summary

CECO Environmental beats its competitors on 9 of the 13 factors compared.

CECO Environmental Company Profile

CECO Environmental Corp. provides critical solutions in industrial air quality, industrial water treatment, and energy transition solutions worldwide. It operates in two segments: Engineered Systems and Industrial Process Solutions. The company engineers, designs, manufactures, and installs non-metallic expansion joints and flow control products, including rubber expansion joints, ducting expansion joints, and industrial pinch and duck bill valves; membrane-based industrial water and wastewater treatment systems; and provides dust and fume extraction solutions comprising consultation, design, manufacturing, installation, and service, as well as water and wastewater treatment solutions. It offers engineered and configured products and solutions, including dampers and diverters, expansion joints, selective catalytic reduction systems, severe-service and industrial cyclones, dust collectors, thermal oxidizers, filtration systems, wet and dry scrubbers, separators and coalescers, water treatment packages, metallic and non-metallic pumps, industrial silencers, and fluid handling equipment, as well as plant engineering services and engineered design build fabrication services. In addition, the company offers industrial engineered noise control solutions, including custom acoustical gen-set packages, ambient air baffles, acoustical louvres, and skid enclosures; process filtration solutions for hydrocarbon and chemical processing; and energy and water conservation systems and equipment. The company markets its products and services to natural gas processors, transmission and distribution companies, refineries, power generators, industrial manufacturing, engineering and construction companies, semiconductor manufacturers, compressor manufacturers, beverage can manufacturers, metals and minerals, and electric vehicle producers. CECO Environmental Corp. was founded in 1869 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.