ABM vs. IESC, UNF, FTDR, ROAD, DOOR, CCS, PRIM, CVCO, GVA, and STRL
Should you be buying ABM Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ABM Industries include IES (IESC), UniFirst (UNF), Frontdoor (FTDR), Construction Partners (ROAD), Masonite International (DOOR), Century Communities (CCS), Primoris Services (PRIM), Cavco Industries (CVCO), Granite Construction (GVA), and Sterling Infrastructure (STRL).
ABM Industries (NYSE:ABM) and IES (NASDAQ:IESC) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, community ranking, risk and valuation.
IES has a net margin of 5.27% compared to ABM Industries' net margin of 3.15%. IES's return on equity of 31.62% beat ABM Industries' return on equity.
ABM Industries received 145 more outperform votes than IES when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.87% of users gave IES an outperform vote while only 60.38% of users gave ABM Industries an outperform vote.
91.6% of ABM Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.6% of IES shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of ABM Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 59.2% of IES shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
ABM Industries has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IES has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, IES had 7 more articles in the media than ABM Industries. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for IES and 4 mentions for ABM Industries. ABM Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat IES's score of 0.40 indicating that ABM Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
ABM Industries currently has a consensus target price of $45.20, suggesting a potential upside of 0.65%. Given ABM Industries' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe ABM Industries is more favorable than IES.
ABM Industries has higher revenue and earnings than IES. ABM Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IES, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
IES beats ABM Industries on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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