DY vs. PRIM, MTZ, KNF, GTES, ACA, RYN, SKY, STRL, TPH, and AWI
Should you be buying Dycom Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dycom Industries include Primoris Services (PRIM), MasTec (MTZ), Knife River (KNF), Gates Industrial (GTES), Arcosa (ACA), Rayonier (RYN), Skyline Champion (SKY), Sterling Infrastructure (STRL), Tri Pointe Homes (TPH), and Armstrong World Industries (AWI). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Primoris Services (NASDAQ:PRIM) and Dycom Industries (NYSE:DY) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.
91.8% of Primoris Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.3% of Dycom Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Primoris Services shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Dycom Industries shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Dycom Industries received 320 more outperform votes than Primoris Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.28% of users gave Dycom Industries an outperform vote while only 57.79% of users gave Primoris Services an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Primoris Services had 5 more articles in the media than Dycom Industries. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Primoris Services and 11 mentions for Dycom Industries. Dycom Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Primoris Services' score of 0.72 indicating that Primoris Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Primoris Services presently has a consensus price target of $53.67, suggesting a potential upside of 3.52%. Dycom Industries has a consensus price target of $138.83, suggesting a potential downside of 6.69%. Given Dycom Industries' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Primoris Services is more favorable than Dycom Industries.
Dycom Industries has a net margin of 5.24% compared to Dycom Industries' net margin of 2.45%. Primoris Services' return on equity of 22.06% beat Dycom Industries' return on equity.
Dycom Industries has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Primoris Services. Primoris Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dycom Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Primoris Services has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dycom Industries has a beta of 1.37, meaning that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Dycom Industries beats Primoris Services on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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