DY vs. PRIM, MTZ, ACA, KNF, SKY, RYN, GTES, TPH, DFH, and MHO
Should you be buying Dycom Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dycom Industries include Primoris Services (PRIM), MasTec (MTZ), Arcosa (ACA), Knife River (KNF), Skyline Champion (SKY), Rayonier (RYN), Gates Industrial (GTES), Tri Pointe Homes (TPH), Dream Finders Homes (DFH), and M/I Homes (MHO). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Primoris Services (NASDAQ:PRIM) and Dycom Industries (NYSE:DY) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership and valuation.
Dycom Industries has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Primoris Services. Dycom Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Primoris Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Dycom Industries has a net margin of 5.24% compared to Dycom Industries' net margin of 2.21%. Primoris Services' return on equity of 22.06% beat Dycom Industries' return on equity.
In the previous week, Dycom Industries had 1 more articles in the media than Primoris Services. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Dycom Industries and 3 mentions for Primoris Services. Primoris Services' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Dycom Industries' score of 0.85 indicating that Dycom Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Primoris Services has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dycom Industries has a beta of 1.37, suggesting that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Dycom Industries received 319 more outperform votes than Primoris Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.25% of users gave Dycom Industries an outperform vote while only 57.79% of users gave Primoris Services an outperform vote.
91.8% of Primoris Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.3% of Dycom Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Primoris Services shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Dycom Industries shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Primoris Services currently has a consensus price target of $53.67, suggesting a potential upside of 16.31%. Dycom Industries has a consensus price target of $135.50, suggesting a potential downside of 2.83%. Given Dycom Industries' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Primoris Services is more favorable than Dycom Industries.
Summary
Dycom Industries beats Primoris Services on 16 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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