AMRC vs. DY, STRL, PRIM, GVA, MYRG, TPC, AGX, GLDD, NWPX, and MTRX
Should you be buying Ameresco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ameresco include Dycom Industries (DY), Sterling Infrastructure (STRL), Primoris Services (PRIM), Granite Construction (GVA), MYR Group (MYRG), Tutor Perini (TPC), Argan (AGX), Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), Northwest Pipe (NWPX), and Matrix Service (MTRX). These companies are all part of the "construction & engineering" industry.
Ameresco (NYSE:AMRC) and Dycom Industries (NYSE:DY) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.
Ameresco has a beta of 1.6, suggesting that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dycom Industries has a beta of 1.37, suggesting that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ameresco presently has a consensus target price of $40.31, suggesting a potential upside of 10.37%. Dycom Industries has a consensus target price of $191.71, suggesting a potential upside of 6.53%. Given Ameresco's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Ameresco is more favorable than Dycom Industries.
In the previous week, Dycom Industries had 9 more articles in the media than Ameresco. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Dycom Industries and 9 mentions for Ameresco. Dycom Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Ameresco's score of 0.54 indicating that Dycom Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Dycom Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Ameresco. Dycom Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ameresco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
99.2% of Ameresco shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.3% of Dycom Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 42.0% of Ameresco shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Dycom Industries shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Dycom Industries has a net margin of 5.38% compared to Ameresco's net margin of 4.17%. Dycom Industries' return on equity of 22.15% beat Ameresco's return on equity.
Dycom Industries received 262 more outperform votes than Ameresco when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.44% of users gave Dycom Industries an outperform vote while only 68.87% of users gave Ameresco an outperform vote.
Summary
Dycom Industries beats Ameresco on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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