Financial Comparison: SIFCO Industries (NYSE:SIF) & Solstice Advanced Mat (NASDAQ:SOLS)

Solstice Advanced Mat (NASDAQ:SOLS) and SIFCO Industries (NYSE:SIF) are both manufacturing companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

24.2% of SIFCO Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 28.3% of SIFCO Industries shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Solstice Advanced Mat and SIFCO Industries, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Solstice Advanced Mat	0	2	1	0	2.33
SIFCO Industries	0	0	0	0	0.00

Solstice Advanced Mat currently has a consensus price target of $55.33, suggesting a potential upside of 21.69%. Given Solstice Advanced Mat’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Solstice Advanced Mat is more favorable than SIFCO Industries.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Solstice Advanced Mat and SIFCO Industries”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Solstice Advanced Mat	$3.81 billion	1.89	N/A	N/A	N/A
SIFCO Industries	$83.66 million	0.47	-$5.38 million	($0.13)	-49.46

Solstice Advanced Mat has higher revenue and earnings than SIFCO Industries.

Profitability

This table compares Solstice Advanced Mat and SIFCO Industries’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Solstice Advanced Mat	N/A	N/A	N/A
SIFCO Industries	-4.35%	-18.70%	-5.84%

Summary

Solstice Advanced Mat beats SIFCO Industries on 8 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Solstice Advanced Mat

Solstice Advanced Materials is a leading global specialty materials company that advances science for smarter outcomes. Solstice offers high-performance solutions that enable critical industries and applications, including refrigerants, semiconductor manufacturing, data center cooling, nuclear power, protective fibers, healthcare packaging and more.

About SIFCO Industries

SIFCO Industries, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, produces and sells forgings and machined components primarily for the aerospace and energy markets in North America and Europe. The company’s processes and services include forging, heat-treating, chemical processing, and machining. It also offers original equipment manufacturer and aftermarket components for aircraft and industrial gas turbine engines; steam turbine blades; structural airframe components; aircraft landing gear components; aircraft wheels and brakes; rotating components for helicopters; and commercial/industrial products. In addition, the company provides heat-treatment, surface-treatment, non-destructive testing, and select machining and sub-assembly of forged components. SIFCO Industries, Inc. was founded in 1913 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.