OC vs. BLDR, LII, MAS, AOS, TREX, UFPI, SSD, AAON, AWI, and GFF
Should you be buying Owens Corning stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Owens Corning include Builders FirstSource (BLDR), Lennox International (LII), Masco (MAS), A. O. Smith (AOS), Trex (TREX), UFP Industries (UFPI), Simpson Manufacturing (SSD), AAON (AAON), Armstrong World Industries (AWI), and Griffon (GFF). These companies are all part of the "building products" industry.
Builders FirstSource (NYSE:BLDR) and Owens Corning (NYSE:OC) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, earnings and dividends.
Builders FirstSource has a beta of 2.08, suggesting that its share price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Owens Corning has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Owens Corning had 2 more articles in the media than Builders FirstSource. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Owens Corning and 13 mentions for Builders FirstSource. Owens Corning's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Builders FirstSource's score of 0.83 indicating that Builders FirstSource is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Owens Corning has a net margin of 11.53% compared to Owens Corning's net margin of 8.57%. Owens Corning's return on equity of 38.66% beat Builders FirstSource's return on equity.
95.5% of Builders FirstSource shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.4% of Owens Corning shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Builders FirstSource shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Owens Corning shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Builders FirstSource currently has a consensus target price of $196.27, indicating a potential upside of 22.54%. Owens Corning has a consensus target price of $172.07, indicating a potential downside of 3.45%. Given Owens Corning's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Builders FirstSource is more favorable than Owens Corning.
Builders FirstSource has higher revenue and earnings than Owens Corning. Builders FirstSource is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Owens Corning, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Owens Corning received 192 more outperform votes than Builders FirstSource when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.88% of users gave Builders FirstSource an outperform vote while only 63.48% of users gave Owens Corning an outperform vote.
Summary
Builders FirstSource beats Owens Corning on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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