ABM vs. IESC, UNF, FTDR, DOOR, ROAD, CCS, CVCO, STRL, PRIM, and PATK
Should you be buying ABM Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ABM Industries include IES (IESC), UniFirst (UNF), Frontdoor (FTDR), Masonite International (DOOR), Construction Partners (ROAD), Century Communities (CCS), Cavco Industries (CVCO), Sterling Infrastructure (STRL), Primoris Services (PRIM), and Patrick Industries (PATK).
IES (NASDAQ:IESC) and ABM Industries (NYSE:ABM) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and risk.
IES has a net margin of 4.41% compared to IES's net margin of 3.15%. ABM Industries' return on equity of 26.83% beat IES's return on equity.
ABM Industries received 146 more outperform votes than IES when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.74% of users gave IES an outperform vote while only 60.38% of users gave ABM Industries an outperform vote.
ABM Industries has a consensus price target of $45.20, suggesting a potential upside of 1.28%. Given IES's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe ABM Industries is more favorable than IES.
ABM Industries has higher revenue and earnings than IES. ABM Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IES, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
86.6% of IES shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of ABM Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 59.2% of IES shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of ABM Industries shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
IES has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ABM Industries has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, IES had 4 more articles in the media than ABM Industries. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for IES and 5 mentions for ABM Industries. ABM Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat IES's score of 0.62 indicating that IES is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
IES beats ABM Industries on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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