GTES vs. ACA, DY, RYN, KNF, SKY, STRL, TPH, AWI, BCC, and MHO
Should you be buying Gates Industrial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gates Industrial include Arcosa (ACA), Dycom Industries (DY), Rayonier (RYN), Knife River (KNF), Skyline Champion (SKY), Sterling Infrastructure (STRL), Tri Pointe Homes (TPH), Armstrong World Industries (AWI), Boise Cascade (BCC), and M/I Homes (MHO). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Gates Industrial (NYSE:GTES) and Arcosa (NYSE:ACA) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, profitability, valuation and dividends.
In the previous week, Gates Industrial had 2 more articles in the media than Arcosa. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Gates Industrial and 14 mentions for Arcosa. Arcosa's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Gates Industrial's score of 0.34 indicating that Arcosa is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Gates Industrial has a beta of 1.54, meaning that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Arcosa has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
98.5% of Gates Industrial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.7% of Arcosa shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Gates Industrial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Arcosa shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Gates Industrial presently has a consensus target price of $18.88, suggesting a potential upside of 8.79%. Arcosa has a consensus target price of $93.00, suggesting a potential upside of 7.43%. Given Gates Industrial's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Gates Industrial is more favorable than Arcosa.
Gates Industrial has higher revenue and earnings than Arcosa. Gates Industrial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Arcosa, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gates Industrial received 135 more outperform votes than Arcosa when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.78% of users gave Gates Industrial an outperform vote while only 54.23% of users gave Arcosa an outperform vote.
Gates Industrial has a net margin of 6.97% compared to Arcosa's net margin of 6.05%. Gates Industrial's return on equity of 10.52% beat Arcosa's return on equity.
Summary
Gates Industrial beats Arcosa on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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