PRIM vs. AEGN, PLPC, MTZ, KBR, FLR, DY, STRL, GVA, MYRG, and AMRC
Should you be buying Primoris Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Primoris Services include Aegion (AEGN), Preformed Line Products (PLPC), MasTec (MTZ), KBR (KBR), Fluor (FLR), Dycom Industries (DY), Sterling Infrastructure (STRL), Granite Construction (GVA), MYR Group (MYRG), and Ameresco (AMRC).
Primoris Services (NASDAQ:PRIM) and Aegion (NASDAQ:AEGN) are both construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment and risk.
Primoris Services has a net margin of 2.45% compared to Aegion's net margin of -3.65%. Primoris Services' return on equity of 14.13% beat Aegion's return on equity.
Primoris Services received 13 more outperform votes than Aegion when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.50% of users gave Aegion an outperform vote while only 57.79% of users gave Primoris Services an outperform vote.
Primoris Services presently has a consensus target price of $53.67, indicating a potential downside of 2.00%. Given Primoris Services' higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Primoris Services is more favorable than Aegion.
91.8% of Primoris Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.7% of Aegion shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Primoris Services shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.9% of Aegion 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.
Primoris Services has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aegion has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Primoris Services has higher revenue and earnings than Aegion. Primoris Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aegion, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Primoris Services had 5 more articles in the media than Aegion. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Primoris Services and 0 mentions for Aegion. Primoris Services' average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Aegion's score of 0.00 indicating that Primoris Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Primoris Services beats Aegion on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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