SHW vs. CRH, DHI, URI, LEN, OTIS, MLM, PWR, VMC, HWM, and NVR
Should you be buying Sherwin-Williams stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sherwin-Williams include CRH (CRH), D.R. Horton (DHI), United Rentals (URI), Lennar (LEN), Otis Worldwide (OTIS), Martin Marietta Materials (MLM), Quanta Services (PWR), Vulcan Materials (VMC), Howmet Aerospace (HWM), and NVR (NVR).
CRH (NYSE:CRH) and Sherwin-Williams (NYSE:SHW) are both large-cap construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.
CRH pays an annual dividend of $1.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Sherwin-Williams pays an annual dividend of $2.86 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Sherwin-Williams pays out 30.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sherwin-Williams has increased its dividend for 47 consecutive years.
CRH has higher revenue and earnings than Sherwin-Williams.
CRH currently has a consensus target price of $79.31, suggesting a potential upside of 0.97%. Sherwin-Williams has a consensus target price of $341.39, suggesting a potential upside of 11.40%. Given CRH's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Sherwin-Williams is more favorable than CRH.
62.5% of CRH shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.7% of Sherwin-Williams shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Sherwin-Williams shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Sherwin-Williams has a net margin of 10.52% compared to Sherwin-Williams' net margin of 0.00%. CRH's return on equity of 73.74% beat Sherwin-Williams' return on equity.
CRH has a beta of 1.28, indicating that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sherwin-Williams has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Sherwin-Williams had 64 more articles in the media than CRH. MarketBeat recorded 69 mentions for Sherwin-Williams and 5 mentions for CRH. Sherwin-Williams' average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat CRH's score of 0.21 indicating that CRH is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sherwin-Williams received 398 more outperform votes than CRH when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.28% of users gave Sherwin-Williams an outperform vote while only 56.07% of users gave CRH an outperform vote.
Summary
Sherwin-Williams beats CRH on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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