NX vs. JELD, HOV, VSEC, TPC, BZH, LOMA, BXC, AGX, GLDD, and NOA
Should you be buying Quanex Building Products stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Quanex Building Products include JELD-WEN (JELD), Hovnanian Enterprises (HOV), VSE (VSEC), Tutor Perini (TPC), Beazer Homes USA (BZH), Loma Negra Compañía Industrial Argentina Sociedad Anónima (LOMA), BlueLinx (BXC), Argan (AGX), Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), and North American Construction Group (NOA). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
JELD-WEN (NYSE:JELD) and Quanex Building Products (NYSE:NX) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.
JELD-WEN has a beta of 2.32, meaning that its share price is 132% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Quanex Building Products has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
95.0% of JELD-WEN shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.5% of Quanex Building Products shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of JELD-WEN shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Quanex Building Products shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Quanex Building Products has a net margin of 7.84% compared to Quanex Building Products' net margin of 0.47%. JELD-WEN's return on equity of 17.11% beat Quanex Building Products' return on equity.
Quanex Building Products received 16 more outperform votes than JELD-WEN when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.47% of users gave Quanex Building Products an outperform vote while only 55.91% of users gave JELD-WEN an outperform vote.
Quanex Building Products has lower revenue, but higher earnings than JELD-WEN. Quanex Building Products is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JELD-WEN, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, JELD-WEN had 8 more articles in the media than Quanex Building Products. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for JELD-WEN and 1 mentions for Quanex Building Products. JELD-WEN's average media sentiment score of 1.81 beat Quanex Building Products' score of 0.59 indicating that Quanex Building Products is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
JELD-WEN presently has a consensus target price of $18.00, indicating a potential upside of 15.31%. Quanex Building Products has a consensus target price of $38.00, indicating a potential upside of 11.98%. Given Quanex Building Products' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe JELD-WEN is more favorable than Quanex Building Products.
Summary
Quanex Building Products beats JELD-WEN on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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