ROAD vs. KBR, FLR, STRL, GVA, GLDD, ORN, SLND, SHIM, J, and TOL
Should you be buying Construction Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Construction Partners include KBR (KBR), Fluor (FLR), Sterling Infrastructure (STRL), Granite Construction (GVA), Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), Orion Group (ORN), Southland (SLND), Shimmick (SHIM), Jacobs Solutions (J), and Toll Brothers (TOL).
Construction Partners (NASDAQ:ROAD) and KBR (NYSE:KBR) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, dividends and valuation.
Construction Partners has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KBR has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Construction Partners currently has a consensus target price of $54.00, indicating a potential downside of 7.23%. KBR has a consensus target price of $76.00, indicating a potential upside of 15.75%. Given KBR's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe KBR is more favorable than Construction Partners.
94.8% of Construction Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of KBR shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.8% of Construction Partners shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of KBR shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Construction Partners had 1 more articles in the media than KBR. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Construction Partners and 4 mentions for KBR. Construction Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat KBR's score of 0.37 indicating that Construction Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Construction Partners has higher earnings, but lower revenue than KBR. KBR is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Construction Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Construction Partners has a net margin of 3.68% compared to KBR's net margin of -3.65%. KBR's return on equity of 26.14% beat Construction Partners' return on equity.
KBR received 374 more outperform votes than Construction Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.30% of users gave KBR an outperform vote while only 59.09% of users gave Construction Partners an outperform vote.
Summary
KBR beats Construction Partners on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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