EXP vs. CX, TREX, KBR, MTZ, AYI, UFPI, SSD, ALTR, SUM, and AZEK
Should you be buying Eagle Materials stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eagle Materials include CEMEX (CX), Trex (TREX), KBR (KBR), MasTec (MTZ), Acuity Brands (AYI), UFP Industries (UFPI), Simpson Manufacturing (SSD), Altair Engineering (ALTR), Summit Materials (SUM), and AZEK (AZEK). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
CEMEX (NYSE:CX) and Eagle Materials (NYSE:EXP) are both construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Eagle Materials has lower revenue, but higher earnings than CEMEX. Eagle Materials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CEMEX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
83.0% of CEMEX shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.1% of Eagle Materials shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of CEMEX shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Eagle Materials shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
CEMEX received 103 more outperform votes than Eagle Materials when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.15% of users gave Eagle Materials an outperform vote while only 63.81% of users gave CEMEX an outperform vote.
CEMEX has a beta of 1.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eagle Materials has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, CEMEX had 1 more articles in the media than Eagle Materials. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for CEMEX and 9 mentions for Eagle Materials. CEMEX's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Eagle Materials' score of 0.43 indicating that Eagle Materials is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CEMEX presently has a consensus price target of $9.46, indicating a potential upside of 21.40%. Eagle Materials has a consensus price target of $263.50, indicating a potential upside of 2.81%. Given Eagle Materials' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe CEMEX is more favorable than Eagle Materials.
Eagle Materials has a net margin of 22.24% compared to Eagle Materials' net margin of 1.28%. CEMEX's return on equity of 40.05% beat Eagle Materials' return on equity.
Summary
Eagle Materials beats CEMEX on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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