UFPI vs. ALTR, SUM, MTZ, FLR, AZEK, SSD, AAON, CHX, AYI, and TMHC
Should you be buying UFP Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of UFP Industries include Altair Engineering (ALTR), Summit Materials (SUM), MasTec (MTZ), Fluor (FLR), AZEK (AZEK), Simpson Manufacturing (SSD), AAON (AAON), ChampionX (CHX), Acuity Brands (AYI), and Taylor Morrison Home (TMHC). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Altair Engineering (NASDAQ:ALTR) and UFP Industries (NASDAQ:UFPI) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.
Altair Engineering received 269 more outperform votes than UFP Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.84% of users gave UFP Industries an outperform vote while only 58.57% of users gave Altair Engineering an outperform vote.
Altair Engineering presently has a consensus target price of $90.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.14%. UFP Industries has a consensus target price of $114.00, suggesting a potential downside of 1.55%. Given UFP Industries' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Altair Engineering is more favorable than UFP Industries.
UFP Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Altair Engineering. Altair Engineering is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than UFP Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Altair Engineering has a beta of 1.42, suggesting that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, UFP Industries has a beta of 1.49, suggesting that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Altair Engineering had 7 more articles in the media than UFP Industries. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Altair Engineering and 1 mentions for UFP Industries. UFP Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Altair Engineering's score of -0.33 indicating that Altair Engineering is being referred to more favorably in the media.
UFP Industries has a net margin of 7.12% compared to UFP Industries' net margin of -1.46%. Altair Engineering's return on equity of 17.86% beat UFP Industries' return on equity.
63.4% of Altair Engineering shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.8% of UFP Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.8% of Altair Engineering shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of UFP Industries shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Altair Engineering pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. UFP Industries pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Altair Engineering pays out -553.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. UFP Industries pays out 16.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. UFP Industries has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years. UFP Industries is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
UFP Industries beats Altair Engineering on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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