LPX vs. TREX, BCC, THO, AWI, KBH, MTH, GTES, TMHC, RYN, and SKY
Should you be buying Louisiana-Pacific stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Louisiana-Pacific include Trex (TREX), Boise Cascade (BCC), THOR Industries (THO), Armstrong World Industries (AWI), KB Home (KBH), Meritage Homes (MTH), Gates Industrial (GTES), Taylor Morrison Home (TMHC), Rayonier (RYN), and Skyline Champion (SKY). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Trex (NYSE:TREX) and Louisiana-Pacific (NYSE:LPX) 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, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
Trex received 95 more outperform votes than Louisiana-Pacific when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.11% of users gave Louisiana-Pacific an outperform vote while only 55.48% of users gave Trex an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Trex had 1 more articles in the media than Louisiana-Pacific. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Trex and 5 mentions for Louisiana-Pacific. Trex's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Louisiana-Pacific's score of 0.49 indicating that Louisiana-Pacific is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
96.0% of Trex shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.7% of Louisiana-Pacific shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Trex shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Louisiana-Pacific shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Trex has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Louisiana-Pacific. Louisiana-Pacific is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Trex, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Trex has a beta of 1.6, indicating that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Louisiana-Pacific has a beta of 1.84, indicating that its share price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Trex presently has a consensus price target of $88.72, indicating a potential downside of 2.00%. Louisiana-Pacific has a consensus price target of $73.71, indicating a potential downside of 1.15%. Given Trex's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Louisiana-Pacific is more favorable than Trex.
Trex has a net margin of 18.76% compared to Trex's net margin of 6.90%. Louisiana-Pacific's return on equity of 31.26% beat Trex's return on equity.
Summary
Trex beats Louisiana-Pacific on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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