SSD vs. AYI, UFPI, ALTR, SUM, MTZ, AZEK, IBP, MTH, FLR, and CHX
Should you be buying Simpson Manufacturing stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Simpson Manufacturing include Acuity Brands (AYI), UFP Industries (UFPI), Altair Engineering (ALTR), Summit Materials (SUM), MasTec (MTZ), AZEK (AZEK), Installed Building Products (IBP), Meritage Homes (MTH), Fluor (FLR), and ChampionX (CHX). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Acuity Brands (NYSE:AYI) and Simpson Manufacturing (NYSE:SSD) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Acuity Brands currently has a consensus target price of $289.25, suggesting a potential upside of 11.44%. Simpson Manufacturing has a consensus target price of $195.00, suggesting a potential upside of 15.83%. Given Acuity Brands' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Simpson Manufacturing is more favorable than Acuity Brands.
Acuity Brands has a beta of 1.47, meaning that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Simpson Manufacturing has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Acuity Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Simpson Manufacturing pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Acuity Brands pays out 5.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Simpson Manufacturing pays out 13.5% 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. Acuity Brands has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Simpson Manufacturing has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Simpson Manufacturing is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Acuity Brands received 477 more outperform votes than Simpson Manufacturing when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.16% of users gave Acuity Brands an outperform vote while only 56.96% of users gave Simpson Manufacturing an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Simpson Manufacturing had 3 more articles in the media than Acuity Brands. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Simpson Manufacturing and 5 mentions for Acuity Brands. Simpson Manufacturing's average media sentiment score of 1.29 beat Acuity Brands' score of 1.08 indicating that Acuity Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.
98.2% of Acuity Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.7% of Simpson Manufacturing shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Acuity Brands shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Simpson Manufacturing shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Simpson Manufacturing has a net margin of 15.45% compared to Simpson Manufacturing's net margin of 9.81%. Simpson Manufacturing's return on equity of 21.22% beat Acuity Brands' return on equity.
Simpson Manufacturing has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Acuity Brands. Simpson Manufacturing is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Acuity Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Acuity Brands beats Simpson Manufacturing on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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