NX vs. ASPN, VSEC, BXC, BZH, HOV, AGX, LOMA, JELD, TPC, and USLM
Should you be buying Quanex Building Products stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Quanex Building Products include Aspen Aerogels (ASPN), VSE (VSEC), BlueLinx (BXC), Beazer Homes USA (BZH), Hovnanian Enterprises (HOV), Argan (AGX), Loma Negra Compañía Industrial Argentina Sociedad Anónima (LOMA), JELD-WEN (JELD), Tutor Perini (TPC), and United States Lime & Minerals (USLM). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Aspen Aerogels (NYSE:ASPN) and Quanex Building Products (NYSE:NX) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends and profitability.
Aspen Aerogels has a beta of 2.04, indicating that its share price is 104% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Quanex Building Products has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Aspen Aerogels currently has a consensus price target of $19.00, indicating a potential upside of 18.01%. Quanex Building Products has a consensus price target of $38.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.39%. Given Quanex Building Products' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Aspen Aerogels is more favorable than Quanex Building Products.
Quanex Building Products has higher revenue and earnings than Aspen Aerogels. Aspen Aerogels is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Quanex Building Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
97.6% of Aspen Aerogels shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.5% of Quanex Building Products shares are held by institutional investors. 5.2% of Aspen Aerogels shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Quanex Building Products shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Aspen Aerogels received 25 more outperform votes than Quanex Building Products when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.47% of users gave Quanex Building Products an outperform vote while only 64.77% of users gave Aspen Aerogels an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Quanex Building Products had 19 more articles in the media than Aspen Aerogels. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Quanex Building Products and 9 mentions for Aspen Aerogels. Quanex Building Products' average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Aspen Aerogels' score of 0.43 indicating that Aspen Aerogels is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Quanex Building Products has a net margin of 7.84% compared to Quanex Building Products' net margin of -19.19%. Aspen Aerogels' return on equity of 17.11% beat Quanex Building Products' return on equity.
Summary
Quanex Building Products beats Aspen Aerogels on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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