BXC vs. HOV, BZH, LOMA, NX, AGX, VSEC, TPC, ASPN, NOA, and CINT
Should you be buying BlueLinx stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlueLinx include Hovnanian Enterprises (HOV), Beazer Homes USA (BZH), Loma Negra Compañía Industrial Argentina Sociedad Anónima (LOMA), Quanex Building Products (NX), Argan (AGX), VSE (VSEC), Tutor Perini (TPC), Aspen Aerogels (ASPN), North American Construction Group (NOA), and CI&T (CINT). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Hovnanian Enterprises (NYSE:HOV) and BlueLinx (NYSE:BXC) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, profitability and analyst recommendations.
BlueLinx has a consensus target price of $130.00, suggesting a potential upside of 26.85%. Given Hovnanian Enterprises' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe BlueLinx is more favorable than Hovnanian Enterprises.
In the previous week, BlueLinx had 11 more articles in the media than Hovnanian Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for BlueLinx and 3 mentions for Hovnanian Enterprises. Hovnanian Enterprises' average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat BlueLinx's score of 0.02 indicating that BlueLinx is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
65.4% of Hovnanian Enterprises shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.8% of BlueLinx shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.7% of Hovnanian Enterprises shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of BlueLinx shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Hovnanian Enterprises has higher earnings, but lower revenue than BlueLinx. Hovnanian Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BlueLinx, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hovnanian Enterprises has a beta of 2.62, indicating that its stock price is 162% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlueLinx has a beta of 1.96, indicating that its stock price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Hovnanian Enterprises received 69 more outperform votes than BlueLinx when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.07% of users gave BlueLinx an outperform vote while only 54.56% of users gave Hovnanian Enterprises an outperform vote.
Hovnanian Enterprises has a net margin of 7.45% compared to Hovnanian Enterprises' net margin of 1.57%. BlueLinx's return on equity of 58.22% beat Hovnanian Enterprises' return on equity.
Summary
Hovnanian Enterprises and BlueLinx tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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