USG vs. ACA, DY, TPH, DFH, MHO, KNF, SKY, STRL, CVCO, and RYN
Should you be buying USG stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of USG include Arcosa (ACA), Dycom Industries (DY), Tri Pointe Homes (TPH), Dream Finders Homes (DFH), M/I Homes (MHO), Knife River (KNF), Skyline Champion (SKY), Sterling Infrastructure (STRL), Cavco Industries (CVCO), and Rayonier (RYN). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Arcosa (NYSE:ACA) and USG (NYSE:USG) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, earnings, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
In the previous week, USG had 2 more articles in the media than Arcosa. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for USG and 4 mentions for Arcosa. USG's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Arcosa's score of 0.00 indicating that Arcosa is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Arcosa has a net margin of 6.90% compared to Arcosa's net margin of 5.88%. Arcosa's return on equity of 11.65% beat USG's return on equity.
USG has higher revenue and earnings than Arcosa. USG is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Arcosa, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Arcosa presently has a consensus price target of $90.00, indicating a potential upside of 16.37%. Given USG's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Arcosa is more favorable than USG.
USG received 274 more outperform votes than Arcosa when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.09% of users gave USG an outperform vote while only 53.90% of users gave Arcosa an outperform vote.
90.7% of Arcosa shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.7% of USG shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Arcosa shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of USG shares are owned by company 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.
Arcosa has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, USG has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Arcosa beats USG on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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