CRH vs. CX, EXP, LOMA, CPAC, SHW, DHI, URI, LEN, PWR, and OTIS
Should you be buying CRH stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CRH include CEMEX (CX), Eagle Materials (EXP), Loma Negra Compañía Industrial Argentina Sociedad Anónima (LOMA), Cementos Pacasmayo S.A.A. (CPAC), Sherwin-Williams (SHW), D.R. Horton (DHI), United Rentals (URI), Lennar (LEN), Quanta Services (PWR), and Otis Worldwide (OTIS). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
CRH (NYSE:CRH) and CEMEX (NYSE:CX) are both large-cap construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends and community ranking.
62.5% of CRH shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.0% of CEMEX shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of CEMEX shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
CRH currently has a consensus price target of $83.28, indicating a potential upside of 1.86%. CEMEX has a consensus price target of $9.46, indicating a potential upside of 25.59%. Given CEMEX's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe CEMEX is more favorable than CRH.
CRH has higher revenue and earnings than CEMEX.
In the previous week, CRH had 1 more articles in the media than CEMEX. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for CRH and 5 mentions for CEMEX. CRH's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat CEMEX's score of 0.83 indicating that CRH is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CEMEX received 61 more outperform votes than CRH when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.81% of users gave CEMEX an outperform vote while only 56.28% of users gave CRH an outperform vote.
CEMEX has a net margin of 1.28% compared to CRH's net margin of 0.00%. CEMEX's return on equity of 1.82% beat CRH's return on equity.
CRH has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CEMEX has a beta of 1.5, indicating that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
CEMEX beats CRH on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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