SHIM vs. J, KBR, FLR, STRL, ROAD, GVA, GLDD, ORN, SLND, and III
Should you be buying Shimmick stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Shimmick include Jacobs Solutions (J), KBR (KBR), Fluor (FLR), Sterling Infrastructure (STRL), Construction Partners (ROAD), Granite Construction (GVA), Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), Orion Group (ORN), Southland (SLND), and Information Services Group (III).
Shimmick (NASDAQ:SHIM) and Jacobs Solutions (NYSE:J) are both business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, community ranking, earnings, valuation and media sentiment.
6.9% of Shimmick shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.7% of Jacobs Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. 92.3% of Shimmick shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Jacobs Solutions shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Jacobs Solutions had 13 more articles in the media than Shimmick. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Jacobs Solutions and 1 mentions for Shimmick. Shimmick's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Jacobs Solutions' score of 0.60 indicating that Shimmick is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Jacobs Solutions has a net margin of 3.83% compared to Shimmick's net margin of 0.00%. Jacobs Solutions' return on equity of 14.59% beat Shimmick's return on equity.
Jacobs Solutions received 74 more outperform votes than Shimmick when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.58% of users gave Jacobs Solutions an outperform vote while only 57.14% of users gave Shimmick an outperform vote.
Shimmick presently has a consensus price target of $3.75, suggesting a potential upside of 91.33%. Jacobs Solutions has a consensus price target of $156.82, suggesting a potential upside of 12.54%. Given Shimmick's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Shimmick is more favorable than Jacobs Solutions.
Jacobs Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than Shimmick.
Summary
Jacobs Solutions beats Shimmick on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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