Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (NASDAQ:GLDD – Get Free Report) and Olenox Industries (NASDAQ:OLOX – Get Free Report) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Volatility and Risk
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has a beta of 1.38, indicating that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Olenox Industries has a beta of 1.56, indicating that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Great Lakes Dredge & Dock and Olenox Industries, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Great Lakes Dredge & Dock | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Olenox Industries | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Great Lakes Dredge & Dock and Olenox Industries”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Great Lakes Dredge & Dock | $888.28 million | 1.28 | $73.47 million | $1.07 | 15.89 |
| Olenox Industries | $2.95 million | 0.47 | -$18.82 million | ($17.93) | -0.05 |
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has higher revenue and earnings than Olenox Industries. Olenox Industries 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.
Profitability
This table compares Great Lakes Dredge & Dock and Olenox Industries’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Great Lakes Dredge & Dock | 8.27% | 16.46% | 6.48% |
| Olenox Industries | -427.82% | -117.43% | -27.57% |
Institutional & Insider Ownership
89.1% of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.5% of Olenox Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.5% of Olenox Industries shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock beats Olenox Industries on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Great Lakes Dredge & Dock
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corp. engages in the provision of dredging services. Its projects include channel and port maintenance, channel deepening and port expansion, coastal protection and restoration, as well as land reclamation. The company was founded by William A. Lydon and Frederick C. Drews in 1890 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.
About Olenox Industries
Safe & Green Holdings Corp. is a design and construction services company, which engages in the provision of code engineered cargo shipping containers. It operates through the following segments: Construction, Medical, Development, and Corporate and Support. The Construction Services segment includes the manufacturing of unit SG ECHO and other modules projects. The Medical segment consists of joint venture COVID-19 laboratory operations. The Development segment focuses on real property development. The Corporate and Support segment includes general corporate expenses such as the executive office, corporate finance, accounting, audit, tax, human resources, risk management, information technology, marketing, and legal groups, corporate overhead, and other items not allocated to any of the company’s other segments. The company was founded on December 29, 1993 and is headquartered in Miami, FL.
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