CRH vs. CX, EXP, LOMA, CPAC, SHW, DHI, URI, LEN, PWR, and OTIS
Should you be buying CRH stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CRH include CEMEX (CX), Eagle Materials (EXP), Loma Negra Compañía Industrial Argentina Sociedad Anónima (LOMA), Cementos Pacasmayo S.A.A. (CPAC), Sherwin-Williams (SHW), D.R. Horton (DHI), United Rentals (URI), Lennar (LEN), Quanta Services (PWR), and Otis Worldwide (OTIS). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
CRH (NYSE:CRH) and CEMEX (NYSE:CX) are both large-cap construction companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and risk.
CEMEX has a net margin of 1.28% compared to CRH's net margin of 0.00%. CEMEX's return on equity of 1.82% beat CRH's return on equity.
CEMEX received 61 more outperform votes than CRH when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.81% of users gave CEMEX an outperform vote while only 56.28% of users gave CRH an outperform vote.
CRH pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. CEMEX pays an annual dividend of $0.0990 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. CEMEX pays out 70.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
CRH has higher revenue and earnings than CEMEX.
CRH has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CEMEX has a beta of 1.5, meaning that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, CRH had 1 more articles in the media than CEMEX. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for CRH and 5 mentions for CEMEX. CRH's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat CEMEX's score of 0.83 indicating that CRH is being referred to more favorably in the media.
62.5% of CRH shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.0% of CEMEX shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of CEMEX shares are held by 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.
CRH presently has a consensus price target of $83.28, suggesting a potential upside of 1.86%. CEMEX has a consensus price target of $9.46, suggesting a potential upside of 25.59%. Given CEMEX's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe CEMEX is more favorable than CRH.
Summary
CRH and CEMEX tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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