ROCK vs. JBI, PGTI, GVA, FTDR, PATK, PRIM, WGO, HLMN, CCS, and ROAD
Should you be buying Gibraltar Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gibraltar Industries include Janus International Group (JBI), PGT Innovations (PGTI), Granite Construction (GVA), Frontdoor (FTDR), Patrick Industries (PATK), Primoris Services (PRIM), Winnebago Industries (WGO), Hillman Solutions (HLMN), Century Communities (CCS), and Construction Partners (ROAD). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Janus International Group (NYSE:JBI) and Gibraltar Industries (NASDAQ:ROCK) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk and valuation.
Janus International Group presently has a consensus price target of $16.30, suggesting a potential upside of 18.20%. Given Gibraltar Industries' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Janus International Group is more favorable than Gibraltar Industries.
88.8% of Janus International Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.4% of Gibraltar Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 42.9% of Janus International Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Gibraltar Industries shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Janus International Group has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gibraltar Industries has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Janus International Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Gibraltar Industries. Janus International Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gibraltar Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gibraltar Industries received 265 more outperform votes than Janus International Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.34% of users gave Gibraltar Industries an outperform vote while only 39.29% of users gave Janus International Group an outperform vote.
Janus International Group has a net margin of 12.73% compared to Janus International Group's net margin of 8.02%. Gibraltar Industries' return on equity of 30.00% beat Janus International Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Gibraltar Industries had 16 more articles in the media than Janus International Group. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Gibraltar Industries and 3 mentions for Janus International Group. Gibraltar Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Janus International Group's score of 0.18 indicating that Janus International Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Janus International Group beats Gibraltar Industries on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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