ACA vs. DY, GTES, RYN, KNF, SKY, STRL, TPH, VMI, AWI, and MHO
Should you be buying Arcosa stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Arcosa include Dycom Industries (DY), Gates Industrial (GTES), Rayonier (RYN), Knife River (KNF), Skyline Champion (SKY), Sterling Infrastructure (STRL), Tri Pointe Homes (TPH), Valmont Industries (VMI), Armstrong World Industries (AWI), and M/I Homes (MHO).
Arcosa (NYSE:ACA) and Dycom Industries (NYSE:DY) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and community ranking.
Arcosa has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dycom Industries has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Arcosa currently has a consensus target price of $90.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.91%. Dycom Industries has a consensus target price of $135.50, indicating a potential downside of 10.01%. Given Arcosa's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Arcosa is more favorable than Dycom Industries.
Dycom Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Arcosa. Dycom Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Arcosa, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Dycom Industries received 573 more outperform votes than Arcosa when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.25% of users gave Dycom Industries an outperform vote while only 53.90% of users gave Arcosa an outperform vote.
Arcosa has a net margin of 6.05% compared to Dycom Industries' net margin of 5.24%. Dycom Industries' return on equity of 22.06% beat Arcosa's return on equity.
90.7% of Arcosa shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.3% of Dycom Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Arcosa shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Dycom Industries shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Dycom Industries had 1 more articles in the media than Arcosa. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Dycom Industries and 4 mentions for Arcosa. Arcosa's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Dycom Industries' score of 0.44 indicating that Arcosa is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Dycom Industries beats Arcosa on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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