WMS vs. TOL, BLD, ACM, CX, FND, FIX, RPM, OC, TREX, and JHX
Should you be buying Advanced Drainage Systems stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Advanced Drainage Systems include Toll Brothers (TOL), TopBuild (BLD), AECOM (ACM), CEMEX (CX), Floor & Decor (FND), Comfort Systems USA (FIX), RPM International (RPM), Owens Corning (OC), Trex (TREX), and James Hardie Industries (JHX). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Toll Brothers (NYSE:TOL) and Advanced Drainage Systems (NYSE:WMS) are both large-cap construction companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and risk.
Toll Brothers received 286 more outperform votes than Advanced Drainage Systems when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.26% of users gave Toll Brothers an outperform vote while only 52.90% of users gave Advanced Drainage Systems an outperform vote.
Advanced Drainage Systems has a net margin of 17.65% compared to Advanced Drainage Systems' net margin of 13.97%. Toll Brothers' return on equity of 49.79% beat Advanced Drainage Systems' return on equity.
Toll Brothers has higher revenue and earnings than Advanced Drainage Systems. Toll Brothers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Advanced Drainage Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Toll Brothers has a beta of 1.67, suggesting that its share price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Advanced Drainage Systems has a beta of 1.51, suggesting that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Toll Brothers pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Advanced Drainage Systems pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Toll Brothers pays out 7.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Advanced Drainage Systems pays out 8.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Toll Brothers has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years and Advanced Drainage Systems has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Toll Brothers is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
91.8% of Toll Brothers shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of Advanced Drainage Systems shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Toll Brothers shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of Advanced Drainage Systems shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Toll Brothers had 10 more articles in the media than Advanced Drainage Systems. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Toll Brothers and 4 mentions for Advanced Drainage Systems. Toll Brothers' average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Advanced Drainage Systems' score of 0.16 indicating that Advanced Drainage Systems is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Toll Brothers presently has a consensus price target of $113.80, suggesting a potential downside of 7.95%. Advanced Drainage Systems has a consensus price target of $159.13, suggesting a potential downside of 3.50%. Given Toll Brothers' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Advanced Drainage Systems is more favorable than Toll Brothers.
Summary
Toll Brothers beats Advanced Drainage Systems on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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