WSO vs. WSO.B, MAS, LII, EME, JHX, OC, RPM, ACM, BLD, and TOL
Should you be buying Watsco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Watsco include Watsco (WSO.B), Masco (MAS), Lennox International (LII), EMCOR Group (EME), James Hardie Industries (JHX), Owens Corning (OC), RPM International (RPM), AECOM (ACM), TopBuild (BLD), and Toll Brothers (TOL). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Watsco (NYSE:WSO) and Watsco (NYSE:WSO.B) are both large-cap construction companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership and profitability.
89.7% of Watsco shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.1% of Watsco shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.3% of Watsco shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 13.8% of Watsco shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Watsco pays an annual dividend of $10.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Watsco pays an annual dividend of $10.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Watsco pays out 83.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Watsco pays out 83.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Watsco has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Watsco has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Watsco had 15 more articles in the media than Watsco. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Watsco and 7 mentions for Watsco. Watsco's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Watsco's score of 0.41 indicating that Watsco is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Watsco received 231 more outperform votes than Watsco when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.11% of users gave Watsco an outperform vote while only 55.46% of users gave Watsco an outperform vote.
Watsco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Watsco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Watsco presently has a consensus price target of $404.25, indicating a potential downside of 11.38%. Given Watsco's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Watsco is more favorable than Watsco.
Summary
Watsco beats Watsco on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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