Mayville Engineering (NYSE:MEC) and Weir Group (OTCMKTS:WEGRY) Critical Contrast

Mayville Engineering (NYSE:MEC) and Weir Group (OTCMKTS:WEGRY) are both construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, valuation, risk and dividends.

Profitability

This table compares Mayville Engineering and Weir Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Mayville Engineering	-2.93%	-5.77%	-2.58%
Weir Group	N/A	N/A	N/A

Institutional and Insider Ownership

45.4% of Mayville Engineering shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.6% of Mayville Engineering 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.

Risk & Volatility

Mayville Engineering has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Weir Group has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Mayville Engineering and Weir Group, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Mayville Engineering	1	1	4	0	2.50
Weir Group	0	3	2	0	2.40

Mayville Engineering currently has a consensus target price of $29.75, indicating a potential upside of 13.33%. Given Mayville Engineering’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Mayville Engineering is more favorable than Weir Group.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Mayville Engineering and Weir Group”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Mayville Engineering	$546.49 million	0.98	-$8.11 million	($0.80)	-32.81
Weir Group	$3.38 billion	2.60	$325.59 million	N/A	N/A

Weir Group has higher revenue and earnings than Mayville Engineering.

About Mayville Engineering

Mayville Engineering Company, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the production, design, prototyping and tooling, fabrication, aluminum extrusion, coating, and assembling of aftermarket components in the United States. It also supplies engineered components to original equipment manufacturers. The company serves heavy and medium duty commercial vehicles, construction and access equipment, powersports, agriculture, military, and other end markets. Mayville Engineering Company, Inc. was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

About Weir Group

The Weir Group PLC produces and sells highly engineered original equipment worldwide. It operates in two segments, Minerals and ESCO. The Minerals segment offers engineering, manufacturing, and service processing technology for the use in abrasive high-wear mining applications; and differentiated technology for the use in infrastructure and general industrial markets. The ESCO segment provides ground engaging tools for large mining machines. This segment also offers cloud-based Artificial Intelligence solutions to the mining industry; manufactures and distributes highly engineered wear parts; and offers aftermarket services to the mining industry. The company offers its products under the Accumin, All-Cast, Aspir, Bucyrus Blades, Carbide Plus, Cavex, Delta Industrial, Enduron, ESCO, EverSharp, GEHO, GeoVor, Infinity, Isogate, Kwik-Lok, Lewis, Linacure, Linagard, Linard, Linatex, Loadmaster, MaxTemp, Motion Metrics, Multiflo, Nemisys, Posilok, Production Master, ProFill, Sand,aster, Super V, SV2, Synertrex, TopLock, Trio, UltraEdge, Ultrlok, Uni-Lok, Vulco, Warman, and Whisler Plus brands. The Weir Group PLC was founded in 1871 and is headquartered in Glasgow, the United Kingdom.