SKY vs. CVCO, RYN, DY, GTES, ACA, KNF, STRL, AWI, TPH, and MHO
Should you be buying Skyline Champion stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Skyline Champion include Cavco Industries (CVCO), Rayonier (RYN), Dycom Industries (DY), Gates Industrial (GTES), Arcosa (ACA), Knife River (KNF), Sterling Infrastructure (STRL), Armstrong World Industries (AWI), Tri Pointe Homes (TPH), and M/I Homes (MHO). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Skyline Champion (NYSE:SKY) and Cavco Industries (NASDAQ:CVCO) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Cavco Industries has a net margin of 8.79% compared to Skyline Champion's net margin of 7.24%. Cavco Industries' return on equity of 15.52% beat Skyline Champion's return on equity.
Skyline Champion presently has a consensus target price of $71.00, indicating a potential upside of 0.58%. Cavco Industries has a consensus target price of $425.00, indicating a potential upside of 21.76%. Given Cavco Industries' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Cavco Industries is more favorable than Skyline Champion.
95.6% of Cavco Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.0% of Skyline Champion shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Cavco Industries shares are owned by company 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.
Cavco Industries has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Skyline Champion. Cavco Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Skyline Champion, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Skyline Champion had 8 more articles in the media than Cavco Industries. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Skyline Champion and 18 mentions for Cavco Industries. Skyline Champion's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Cavco Industries' score of 0.42 indicating that Skyline Champion is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Cavco Industries received 183 more outperform votes than Skyline Champion when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.11% of users gave Cavco Industries an outperform vote while only 33.77% of users gave Skyline Champion an outperform vote.
Skyline Champion has a beta of 1.54, indicating that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cavco Industries has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Cavco Industries beats Skyline Champion on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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