Both in Materials Manufacturing

Northern Technologies International vs Smith-Midland

Over the past year NTIC returned +0.7% and SMID returned −38.6%; their daily moves had a correlation of 0.04.

NTIC +0.7% SMID −38.6%Growth of $1, one year, split-adjusted
MetricNTICSMID
Price$7.53$22.51
Market cap$71.5M$119.4M
Today+0.53%+0.76%
1 month−2.3%−1.1%
6 months−5.3%−35.6%
Year to date−3.8%−38.1%
1 year−1.7%−40.2%
Revenue growth (YoY)+12.6%−10.8%
Gross margin33.6%23.2%
Net margin−1.1%5.9%
P/E (TTM)—15.5×
Price / sales0.8×1.3×
Net cash-$7.9M$6.5M
Dividend yield0.53%—
Volatility (60d)25.3%31.1%
Short % of float0.1%4.7%
Next earnings——

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