LII vs. AAON, EME, WSO.B, MAS, JHX, OC, RPM, BLD, ACM, and TOL
Should you be buying Lennox International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lennox International include AAON (AAON), EMCOR Group (EME), Watsco (WSO.B), Masco (MAS), James Hardie Industries (JHX), Owens Corning (OC), RPM International (RPM), TopBuild (BLD), AECOM (ACM), and Toll Brothers (TOL). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Lennox International (NYSE:LII) and AAON (NASDAQ:AAON) are both construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, dividends, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Lennox International currently has a consensus target price of $482.31, suggesting a potential upside of 0.42%. Given Lennox International's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Lennox International is more favorable than AAON.
In the previous week, AAON had 19 more articles in the media than Lennox International. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for AAON and 2 mentions for Lennox International. Lennox International's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat AAON's score of 0.42 indicating that Lennox International is being referred to more favorably in the media.
67.1% of Lennox International shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.8% of AAON shares are held by institutional investors. 10.4% of Lennox International shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 18.6% of AAON shares are held 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.
Lennox International has higher revenue and earnings than AAON. Lennox International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AAON, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lennox International has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AAON has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Lennox International received 150 more outperform votes than AAON when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.01% of users gave AAON an outperform vote while only 47.70% of users gave Lennox International an outperform vote.
Lennox International pays an annual dividend of $4.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. AAON pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Lennox International pays out 25.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AAON pays out 14.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
AAON has a net margin of 15.44% compared to Lennox International's net margin of 12.38%. Lennox International's return on equity of 303.36% beat AAON's return on equity.
Summary
Lennox International beats AAON on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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