Both in Materials Manufacturing

Optical Cable vs DMC Global

Over the past year OCC returned +27.8% and BOOM returned +0.7%; their daily moves had a correlation of 0.07.

OCC +27.8% BOOM +0.7%Growth of $1, one year, split-adjusted
MetricOCCBOOM
Price$10.99$8.07
Market cap$97.2M$165.8M
Today−8.19%−8.92%
1 month−34.3%+34.9%
6 months+7.5%+9.2%
Year to date+147.0%+20.6%
1 year+27.8%+0.7%
Revenue growth (YoY)+22.0%+14.1%
Gross margin37.4%26.9%
Net margin7.6%6.9%
P/E (TTM)37.9×—
Price / sales1.2×0.3×
Net cash-$8.7M$34.2M
Dividend yield——
Volatility (60d)75.8%90.6%
Short % of float9.1%0.8%
Next earnings——

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