Head-To-Head Review: IES (NASDAQ:IESC) & Olenox Industries (NASDAQ:OLOX)

IES (NASDAQ:IESC) and Olenox Industries (NASDAQ:OLOX) are both industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability and valuation.

Profitability

This table compares IES and Olenox Industries’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
IES	11.40%	35.70%	19.68%
Olenox Industries	-427.82%	-117.43%	-27.57%

Risk & Volatility

IES has a beta of 1.77, indicating that its stock price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Olenox Industries has a beta of 1.56, indicating that its stock price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for IES and Olenox Industries, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
IES	0	1	2	0	2.67
Olenox Industries	1	0	0	0	1.00

IES presently has a consensus price target of $334.50, suggesting a potential upside of 11.67%. Given IES’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe IES is more favorable than Olenox Industries.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares IES and Olenox Industries”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
IES	$3.37 billion	3.54	$303.06 million	$11.26	26.60
Olenox Industries	$2.95 million	0.52	-$18.82 million	($17.93)	-0.05

IES has higher revenue and earnings than Olenox Industries. Olenox Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IES, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

86.6% of IES shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.5% of Olenox Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 56.4% of IES shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.5% of Olenox Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

IES beats Olenox Industries on 14 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About IES

IES Holdings, Inc. engages in the design and installation of integrated electrical and technology systems, and provides infrastructure products and services in the United States. The Communications segment designs, installs, and maintains network infrastructure within data centers for co-location and managed hosting customers; corporate, educational, financial, hospitality, and healthcare buildings; e-commerce distribution centers; and high-tech manufacturing facilities. This segment also provides design and installation services for audio/visual, telephone, fire, and wireless access and intrusion alarm systems; and engages in designing/building, servicing, and maintaining data network systems. The Residential segment offers electrical installations to single-family housing and multi-family apartments; and cable television installations to residential and light commercial applications, as well as installs residential solar power for new construction and existing residences. The Infrastructure Solutions segment maintains and repairs alternating and direct current electric motors and generators, and power generating and distribution equipment; manufactures custom-engineered metal enclosed bus duct solutions used in power distribution; manufactures custom commercial and industrial generator enclosures; manufactures, re-manufactures, and repairs industrial lifting magnets; and maintains and repairs railroad main and auxiliary generators, main alternators, and traction motors. The Commercial & Industrial segment offers electrical and mechanical design, construction, and maintenance services for office buildings, manufacturing facilities, data centers, chemical plants, refineries, wind farms, solar facilities, municipal infrastructures, and health care facilities. The company was formerly known as Integrated Electrical Services, Inc. and changed its name to IES Holdings, Inc. in May 2016. IES Holdings, Inc. was incorporated in 1997 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

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.