GMS vs. BECN, BCC, ASPN, SGBX, YUMC, BURL, WBA, CASY, WING, and TXRH
Should you be buying GMS stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GMS include Beacon Roofing Supply (BECN), Boise Cascade (BCC), Aspen Aerogels (ASPN), Safe & Green (SGBX), Yum China (YUMC), Burlington Stores (BURL), Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), Casey's General Stores (CASY), Wingstop (WING), and Texas Roadhouse (TXRH).
GMS (NYSE:GMS) and Beacon Roofing Supply (NASDAQ:BECN) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and earnings.
GMS has a beta of 1.71, suggesting that its share price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Beacon Roofing Supply has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Beacon Roofing Supply received 70 more outperform votes than GMS when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.03% of users gave GMS an outperform vote while only 60.81% of users gave Beacon Roofing Supply an outperform vote.
GMS has a net margin of 5.48% compared to Beacon Roofing Supply's net margin of 4.47%. Beacon Roofing Supply's return on equity of 26.39% beat GMS's return on equity.
Beacon Roofing Supply has higher revenue and earnings than GMS. Beacon Roofing Supply is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GMS, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, GMS and GMS both had 10 articles in the media. Beacon Roofing Supply's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat GMS's score of 0.27 indicating that Beacon Roofing Supply is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
95.3% of GMS shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.5% of Beacon Roofing Supply shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of GMS shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Beacon Roofing Supply shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
GMS presently has a consensus target price of $89.63, indicating a potential downside of 4.61%. Beacon Roofing Supply has a consensus target price of $109.45, indicating a potential upside of 12.77%. Given Beacon Roofing Supply's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Beacon Roofing Supply is more favorable than GMS.
Summary
Beacon Roofing Supply beats GMS on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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