SHW vs. CRH, DHI, URI, LEN, OTIS, MLM, VMC, HWM, NVR, and PHM
Should you be buying Sherwin-Williams stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sherwin-Williams include CRH (CRH), D.R. Horton (DHI), United Rentals (URI), Lennar (LEN), Otis Worldwide (OTIS), Martin Marietta Materials (MLM), Vulcan Materials (VMC), Howmet Aerospace (HWM), NVR (NVR), and PulteGroup (PHM). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
CRH (NYSE:CRH) and Sherwin-Williams (NYSE:SHW) are both large-cap construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
CRH has higher revenue and earnings than Sherwin-Williams.
In the previous week, Sherwin-Williams had 5 more articles in the media than CRH. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Sherwin-Williams and 9 mentions for CRH. CRH's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Sherwin-Williams' score of 0.67 indicating that Sherwin-Williams is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
62.5% of CRH shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.7% of Sherwin-Williams shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Sherwin-Williams 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.
Sherwin-Williams received 398 more outperform votes than CRH when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.28% of users gave Sherwin-Williams an outperform vote while only 56.07% of users gave CRH an outperform vote.
Sherwin-Williams has a net margin of 10.52% compared to Sherwin-Williams' net margin of 0.00%. CRH's return on equity of 73.74% beat Sherwin-Williams' return on equity.
CRH currently has a consensus target price of $79.31, indicating a potential downside of 0.59%. Sherwin-Williams has a consensus target price of $341.39, indicating a potential upside of 7.01%. Given CRH's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sherwin-Williams is more favorable than CRH.
CRH pays an annual dividend of $1.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Sherwin-Williams pays an annual dividend of $2.86 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Sherwin-Williams pays out 30.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sherwin-Williams has raised its dividend for 47 consecutive years.
CRH has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sherwin-Williams has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Sherwin-Williams beats CRH on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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