SUM vs. KNF, USLM, AZEK, IBP, FLR, ALTR, UFPI, MTZ, CHX, and SSD
Should you be buying Summit Materials stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Summit Materials include Knife River (KNF), United States Lime & Minerals (USLM), AZEK (AZEK), Installed Building Products (IBP), Fluor (FLR), Altair Engineering (ALTR), UFP Industries (UFPI), MasTec (MTZ), ChampionX (CHX), and Simpson Manufacturing (SSD). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Knife River (NYSE:KNF) and Summit Materials (NYSE:SUM) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk and media sentiment.
Knife River currently has a consensus target price of $76.20, suggesting a potential downside of 1.94%. Summit Materials has a consensus target price of $46.73, suggesting a potential upside of 15.09%. Given Knife River's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Summit Materials is more favorable than Knife River.
In the previous week, Knife River had 3 more articles in the media than Summit Materials. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Knife River and 15 mentions for Summit Materials. Knife River's average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat Summit Materials' score of 0.35 indicating that Summit Materials is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summit Materials received 405 more outperform votes than Knife River when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave Knife River an outperform vote while only 62.37% of users gave Summit Materials an outperform vote.
Summit Materials has a net margin of 8.36% compared to Summit Materials' net margin of 6.46%. Summit Materials' return on equity of 15.98% beat Knife River's return on equity.
Summit Materials has higher revenue and earnings than Knife River. Knife River is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Summit Materials, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
80.1% of Knife River shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Knife River shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Summit Materials shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Summit Materials beats Knife River on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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