TPC vs. AGX, LOMA, BZH, NOA, HOV, CINT, GLDD, BXC, LMB, and LYTS
Should you be buying Tutor Perini stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tutor Perini include Argan (AGX), Loma Negra Compañía Industrial Argentina Sociedad Anónima (LOMA), Beazer Homes USA (BZH), North American Construction Group (NOA), Hovnanian Enterprises (HOV), CI&T (CINT), Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), BlueLinx (BXC), Limbach (LMB), and LSI Industries (LYTS). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Tutor Perini (NYSE:TPC) and Argan (NYSE:AGX) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, risk and community ranking.
Tutor Perini has a beta of 1.53, indicating that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Argan has a beta of 0.43, indicating that its share price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Argan has a net margin of 5.64% compared to Tutor Perini's net margin of -2.56%. Argan's return on equity of 11.37% beat Tutor Perini's return on equity.
Argan has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Tutor Perini. Tutor Perini is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Argan, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Tutor Perini received 44 more outperform votes than Argan when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.32% of users gave Argan an outperform vote while only 64.74% of users gave Tutor Perini an outperform vote.
Tutor Perini presently has a consensus target price of $11.00, indicating a potential downside of 38.27%. Argan has a consensus target price of $70.00, indicating a potential upside of 15.11%. Given Argan's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Argan is more favorable than Tutor Perini.
65.0% of Tutor Perini shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.4% of Argan shares are held by institutional investors. 19.5% of Tutor Perini shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 11.5% of Argan shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Tutor Perini had 5 more articles in the media than Argan. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Tutor Perini and 2 mentions for Argan. Argan's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Tutor Perini's score of 0.65 indicating that Argan is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Argan beats Tutor Perini on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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