STRL vs. GVA, GLDD, ORN, FLR, KBR, ROAD, CVCO, MHO, DOOR, and DFH
Should you be buying Sterling Infrastructure stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sterling Infrastructure include Granite Construction (GVA), Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), Orion Group (ORN), Fluor (FLR), KBR (KBR), Construction Partners (ROAD), Cavco Industries (CVCO), M/I Homes (MHO), Masonite International (DOOR), and Dream Finders Homes (DFH). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Granite Construction (NYSE:GVA) and Sterling Infrastructure (NASDAQ:STRL) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, risk, community ranking, profitability and dividends.
Sterling Infrastructure has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Granite Construction. Sterling Infrastructure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Granite Construction, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Sterling Infrastructure had 4 more articles in the media than Granite Construction. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Sterling Infrastructure and 3 mentions for Granite Construction. Granite Construction's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Sterling Infrastructure's score of 0.14 indicating that Sterling Infrastructure is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Granite Construction has a beta of 1.46, suggesting that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sterling Infrastructure has a beta of 1.19, suggesting that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Granite Construction currently has a consensus target price of $57.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2.65%. Sterling Infrastructure has a consensus target price of $115.00, suggesting a potential upside of 8.60%. Given Granite Construction's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sterling Infrastructure is more favorable than Granite Construction.
Granite Construction received 99 more outperform votes than Sterling Infrastructure when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.59% of users gave Granite Construction an outperform vote while only 56.39% of users gave Sterling Infrastructure an outperform vote.
81.0% of Sterling Infrastructure shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Granite Construction shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of Sterling Infrastructure 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.
Sterling Infrastructure has a net margin of 7.03% compared to Sterling Infrastructure's net margin of 1.24%. Granite Construction's return on equity of 24.75% beat Sterling Infrastructure's return on equity.
Summary
Sterling Infrastructure beats Granite Construction on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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