TREX vs. LPX, EXP, KBR, MTZ, AYI, CX, UFPI, SSD, FIX, and ALTR
Should you be buying Trex stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Trex include Louisiana-Pacific (LPX), Eagle Materials (EXP), KBR (KBR), MasTec (MTZ), Acuity Brands (AYI), CEMEX (CX), UFP Industries (UFPI), Simpson Manufacturing (SSD), Comfort Systems USA (FIX), and Altair Engineering (ALTR). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Trex (NYSE:TREX) and Louisiana-Pacific (NYSE:LPX) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation and earnings.
Trex has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Louisiana-Pacific. Louisiana-Pacific is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Trex, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Trex has a net margin of 20.60% compared to Louisiana-Pacific's net margin of 9.74%. Trex's return on equity of 35.33% beat Louisiana-Pacific's return on equity.
96.0% of Trex shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.7% of Louisiana-Pacific shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Trex shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Louisiana-Pacific shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Trex received 92 more outperform votes than Louisiana-Pacific when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.93% of users gave Louisiana-Pacific an outperform vote while only 55.40% of users gave Trex an outperform vote.
Trex has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Louisiana-Pacific has a beta of 1.87, meaning that its share price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Trex had 17 more articles in the media than Louisiana-Pacific. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for Trex and 16 mentions for Louisiana-Pacific. Louisiana-Pacific's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Trex's score of 0.59 indicating that Louisiana-Pacific is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Trex currently has a consensus target price of $89.47, suggesting a potential upside of 2.08%. Louisiana-Pacific has a consensus target price of $83.89, suggesting a potential downside of 7.22%. Given Trex's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Trex is more favorable than Louisiana-Pacific.
Summary
Trex beats Louisiana-Pacific on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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