Financial Comparison: Webco Industries (WEBC) vs. The Competition

Institutional & Insider Ownership

16.0% of shares of all “Metals & Mining” companies are owned by institutional investors. 54.4% of Webco Industries shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 17.6% of shares of all “Metals & Mining” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Risk and Volatility

Webco Industries has a beta of -0.04, indicating that its stock price is 104% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Webco Industries’ peers have a beta of 0.99, indicating that their average stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Webco Industries and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Webco Industries	3.09%	N/A	N/A
Webco Industries Competitors	-1,155,490,457,955,101,400.00%	-14.49%	-2.09%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Webco Industries and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Webco Industries	$584.68 million	$9.32 million	10.57
Webco Industries Competitors	$4.60 billion	$266.77 million	-21.83

Webco Industries’ peers have higher revenue and earnings than Webco Industries. Webco Industries is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Webco Industries beats its peers on 5 of the 9 factors compared.

Webco Industries Company Profile

Webco Industries, Inc. manufactures and distributes carbon steel, stainless steel, and other metal tubular products. The company offers cold drawn welded and seamless tubing products for use in air cooler and heater, boiler tube, coiled tubing, steam surface condenser, feed water heater, heat exchanger, instrumentation tubing, mechanical tube, welded pipe, pressure tubing, and specialty stainless tubing, as well as original equipment manufacturer applications. It serves power-gen tubing, oil and gas tubular, process tubing, and automotive/industrial tubular industries. Webco Industries, Inc. was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Sand Springs, Oklahoma.