CRH vs. DHI, URI, LEN, OTIS, MLM, VMC, SHW, HWM, NVR, and PHM
Should you be buying CRH stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CRH include D.R. Horton (DHI), United Rentals (URI), Lennar (LEN), Otis Worldwide (OTIS), Martin Marietta Materials (MLM), Vulcan Materials (VMC), Sherwin-Williams (SHW), Howmet Aerospace (HWM), NVR (NVR), and PulteGroup (PHM). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
CRH (NYSE:CRH) and D.R. Horton (NYSE:DHI) are both large-cap construction companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, risk and institutional ownership.
62.5% of CRH shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.6% of D.R. Horton shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of D.R. Horton shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
D.R. Horton received 168 more outperform votes than CRH when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.00% of users gave D.R. Horton an outperform vote while only 56.07% of users gave CRH an outperform vote.
CRH has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, D.R. Horton has a beta of 1.66, indicating that its stock price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, D.R. Horton had 8 more articles in the media than CRH. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for D.R. Horton and 8 mentions for CRH. D.R. Horton's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat CRH's score of 0.49 indicating that D.R. Horton is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CRH presently has a consensus target price of $79.31, suggesting a potential downside of 0.30%. D.R. Horton has a consensus target price of $158.06, suggesting a potential upside of 8.66%. Given D.R. Horton's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe D.R. Horton is more favorable than CRH.
CRH pays an annual dividend of $1.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. D.R. Horton pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. D.R. Horton pays out 8.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
D.R. Horton has a net margin of 13.39% compared to CRH's net margin of 0.00%. D.R. Horton's return on equity of 21.32% beat CRH's return on equity.
D.R. Horton has higher revenue and earnings than CRH.
Summary
D.R. Horton beats CRH on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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