ASPN vs. BECN, BCC, GMS, SGBX, KBR, MTZ, EXP, AYI, ALTR, and UFPI
Should you be buying Aspen Aerogels stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aspen Aerogels include Beacon Roofing Supply (BECN), Boise Cascade (BCC), GMS (GMS), Safe & Green (SGBX), KBR (KBR), MasTec (MTZ), Eagle Materials (EXP), Acuity Brands (AYI), Altair Engineering (ALTR), and UFP Industries (UFPI).
Aspen Aerogels (NYSE:ASPN) and Beacon Roofing Supply (NASDAQ:BECN) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking and media sentiment.
Aspen Aerogels presently has a consensus target price of $26.33, indicating a potential downside of 11.99%. Beacon Roofing Supply has a consensus target price of $109.45, indicating a potential upside of 12.77%. Given Beacon Roofing Supply's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Beacon Roofing Supply is more favorable than Aspen Aerogels.
Beacon Roofing Supply has higher revenue and earnings than Aspen Aerogels. Beacon Roofing Supply is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aspen Aerogels, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
97.6% of Aspen Aerogels shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.5% of Beacon Roofing Supply shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.3% of Aspen Aerogels shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Beacon Roofing Supply shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Beacon Roofing Supply had 2 more articles in the media than Aspen Aerogels. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Beacon Roofing Supply and 8 mentions for Aspen Aerogels. Aspen Aerogels' average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Beacon Roofing Supply's score of 0.79 indicating that Aspen Aerogels is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Aspen Aerogels has a beta of 1.97, meaning that its stock price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Beacon Roofing Supply has a beta of 1.59, meaning that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Beacon Roofing Supply has a net margin of 4.47% compared to Aspen Aerogels' net margin of -10.73%. Beacon Roofing Supply's return on equity of 26.39% beat Aspen Aerogels' return on equity.
Beacon Roofing Supply received 76 more outperform votes than Aspen Aerogels when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.22% of users gave Aspen Aerogels an outperform vote while only 60.81% of users gave Beacon Roofing Supply an outperform vote.
Summary
Beacon Roofing Supply beats Aspen Aerogels on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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