Summit Materials (SUM) Competitors

Summit Materials (NYSE:SUM) and Knife River (NYSE:KNF) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings and community ranking.

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of SUM or KNF?

80.1% of Knife River shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Summit Materials shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Knife River shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Is SUM or KNF more profitable?

Summit Materials has a net margin of 8.36% compared to Knife River's net margin of 6.19%. Knife River's return on equity of 14.65% beat Summit Materials' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Summit Materials	8.36%	7.33%	3.63%
Knife River	6.19%	14.65%	6.77%

Do analysts rate SUM or KNF?

Summit Materials presently has a consensus target price of $46.92, suggesting a potential upside of 17.17%. Knife River has a consensus target price of $76.20, suggesting a potential upside of 2.88%. Given Summit Materials' higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Summit Materials is more favorable than Knife River.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Summit Materials	0 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	8 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67
Knife River	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.83

Which has better valuation and earnings, SUM or KNF?

Summit Materials has higher revenue and earnings than Knife River. Summit Materials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Knife River, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Summit Materials	$2.99B	2.35	$289.63M	$2.24	17.88
Knife River	$2.83B	1.48	$182.87M	$3.10	23.89

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer SUM or KNF?

Summit Materials received 406 more outperform votes than Knife River when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave Knife River an outperform vote while only 62.42% of users gave Summit Materials an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Summit Materials	Outperform Votes 412 62.42%	Underperform Votes 248 37.58%
Knife River	Outperform Votes 6 66.67%	Underperform Votes 3 33.33%

Does the media favor SUM or KNF?

In the previous week, Summit Materials had 6 more articles in the media than Knife River. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Summit Materials and 2 mentions for Knife River. Summit Materials' average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Knife River's score of 0.81 indicating that Summit Materials is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Summit Materials	4 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Knife River	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Summit Materials beats Knife River on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.