FLR vs. KBR, STRL, GVA, ROAD, UFPI, SUM, AZEK, IBP, MTZ, and ALTR
Should you be buying Fluor stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fluor include KBR (KBR), Sterling Infrastructure (STRL), Granite Construction (GVA), Construction Partners (ROAD), UFP Industries (UFPI), Summit Materials (SUM), AZEK (AZEK), Installed Building Products (IBP), MasTec (MTZ), and Altair Engineering (ALTR). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Fluor (NYSE:FLR) and KBR (NYSE:KBR) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Fluor presently has a consensus price target of $43.17, suggesting a potential upside of 10.97%. KBR has a consensus price target of $73.86, suggesting a potential upside of 10.58%. Given Fluor's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Fluor is more favorable than KBR.
Fluor received 135 more outperform votes than KBR when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.60% of users gave Fluor an outperform vote while only 66.22% of users gave KBR an outperform vote.
88.1% of Fluor shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of KBR shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Fluor shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of KBR shares are owned 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.
Fluor has a beta of 2.11, meaning that its stock price is 111% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KBR has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, KBR had 22 more articles in the media than Fluor. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for KBR and 13 mentions for Fluor. KBR's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Fluor's score of 0.44 indicating that KBR is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Fluor has a net margin of 0.90% compared to KBR's net margin of -3.65%. KBR's return on equity of 26.14% beat Fluor's return on equity.
Fluor has higher revenue and earnings than KBR. KBR is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fluor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Fluor beats KBR on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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