HWM vs. VMC, MLM, OTIS, PWR, PHM, NVR, ROL, WY, LEN, and URI
Should you be buying Howmet Aerospace stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Howmet Aerospace include Vulcan Materials (VMC), Martin Marietta Materials (MLM), Otis Worldwide (OTIS), Quanta Services (PWR), PulteGroup (PHM), NVR (NVR), Rollins (ROL), Weyerhaeuser (WY), Lennar (LEN), and United Rentals (URI). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Vulcan Materials (NYSE:VMC) and Howmet Aerospace (NYSE:HWM) are both large-cap construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Vulcan Materials presently has a consensus price target of $277.08, indicating a potential upside of 3.33%. Howmet Aerospace has a consensus price target of $73.67, indicating a potential downside of 9.03%. Given Howmet Aerospace's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Vulcan Materials is more favorable than Howmet Aerospace.
90.4% of Vulcan Materials shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.5% of Howmet Aerospace shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Vulcan Materials shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Howmet Aerospace shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Howmet Aerospace has a net margin of 12.53% compared to Howmet Aerospace's net margin of 11.92%. Vulcan Materials' return on equity of 21.33% beat Howmet Aerospace's return on equity.
Vulcan Materials has a beta of 0.83, indicating that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Howmet Aerospace has a beta of 1.41, indicating that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Vulcan Materials pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Howmet Aerospace pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Vulcan Materials pays out 26.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Howmet Aerospace pays out 9.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Vulcan Materials has increased its dividend for 10 consecutive years and Howmet Aerospace has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Vulcan Materials is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Vulcan Materials has higher revenue and earnings than Howmet Aerospace. Howmet Aerospace is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vulcan Materials, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Howmet Aerospace had 28 more articles in the media than Vulcan Materials. MarketBeat recorded 47 mentions for Howmet Aerospace and 19 mentions for Vulcan Materials. Vulcan Materials' average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Howmet Aerospace's score of 0.47 indicating that Howmet Aerospace is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Vulcan Materials received 525 more outperform votes than Howmet Aerospace when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.63% of users gave Howmet Aerospace an outperform vote while only 65.92% of users gave Vulcan Materials an outperform vote.
Summary
Howmet Aerospace beats Vulcan Materials on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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