Both in Materials Manufacturing

Eastern vs Smith-Midland

Over the past year EML returned +35.0% and SMID returned −35.1%; their daily moves had a correlation of 0.25.

EML +35.0% SMID −35.1%Growth of $1, one year, split-adjusted
MetricEMLSMID
Price$28.72$23.79
Market cap$172.8M$126.2M
Today+0.49%−0.21%
1 month+15.9%+8.4%
6 months+30.0%−31.3%
Year to date+45.9%−34.5%
1 year+34.5%−34.8%
Revenue growth (YoY)−11.9%−10.8%
Gross margin20.6%23.2%
Net margin9.1%5.9%
P/E (TTM)21.5×16.3×
Price / sales0.7×1.4×
Net cash-$30.2M$6.5M
Dividend yield1.53%—
Volatility (60d)39.3%32.3%
Short % of float1.9%4.7%
Next earnings——

Shading marks the stronger figure where one clearly exists (lower is better for valuation and volatility).