Insteel Industries (NASDAQ:IIIN) & NORMA Group (OTCMKTS:NOEJF) Head to Head Comparison

NORMA Group (OTCMKTS:NOEJF) and Insteel Industries (NASDAQ:IIIN) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, profitability and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations for NORMA Group and Insteel Industries, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
NORMA Group	0	0	0	0	N/A
Insteel Industries	0	0	0	0	N/A

Dividends

NORMA Group pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Insteel Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. NORMA Group pays out 29.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Insteel Industries pays out 9.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

Profitability

This table compares NORMA Group and Insteel Industries’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
NORMA Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
Insteel Industries	3.67%	5.78%	4.91%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

62.2% of NORMA Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.3% of Insteel Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 5.6% of Insteel Industries shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares NORMA Group and Insteel Industries”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
NORMA Group	N/A	N/A	N/A	$1.74	11.59
Insteel Industries	$552.42 million	1.07	$32.42 million	$1.24	24.51

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

Summary

Insteel Industries beats NORMA Group on 8 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About NORMA Group

NORMA Group SE, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells engineered joining technology solutions in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, and the Asia-Pacific. The company provides quick connectors, hose clamps, retaining clamps, and pipe couplings. It also offers various products for stormwater management, landscape irrigation, and joining components for water infrastructure solutions. The company sells its products to distributors, original equipment manufacturer aftermarket customers, technical wholesalers, and hardware stores under the ABA, Breeze, Clamp-All, CONNECTORS, FISH, Gemi, Kimplas, NDS, NORMA, Raindrip, R.G.RAY, Serflex, TORCA, and TRUSTLENE brand names. In addition, it provides water management, emobility thermal management, and commercial and passenger vehicles solutions. NORMA Group SE was founded in 1896 and is headquartered in Maintal, Germany.

About Insteel Industries

Insteel Industries, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and markets steel wire reinforcing products for concrete construction applications. The company offers prestressed concrete strand (PC strand) and welded wire reinforcement (WWR) products. Its PC strand is a seven-wire strand that is used to impart compression forces into precast concrete elements and structures providing reinforcement for bridges, parking decks, buildings, and other concrete structures. The company’s WWR engineered reinforcing product is used in nonresidential and residential construction. It produces a range of WWR products, such as engineered structural mesh, an engineered made-to-order product that is used as the primary reinforcement for concrete elements or structures serving as a reinforcing solution for hot-rolled rebar; concrete pipe reinforcement, an engineered made-to-order product, which is used as the primary reinforcement in concrete pipe, box culverts, and precast manholes for drainage and sewage systems, water treatment facilities, and other related applications; and standard welded wire reinforcement, a secondary reinforcing product for crack control applications in residential and light nonresidential construction, including driveways, sidewalks, and various slab-on-grade applications. It sells its products through sales representatives to the manufacturers of concrete products, rebar fabricators, distributors, and contractors. Insteel Industries, Inc. was founded in 1953 and is headquartered in Mount Airy, North Carolina.