ROAD vs. KBR, FLR, STRL, GVA, GLDD, ORN, SLND, SHIM, J, and TOL
Should you be buying Construction Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Construction Partners include KBR (KBR), Fluor (FLR), Sterling Infrastructure (STRL), Granite Construction (GVA), Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), Orion Group (ORN), Southland (SLND), Shimmick (SHIM), Jacobs Solutions (J), and Toll Brothers (TOL).
Construction Partners (NASDAQ:ROAD) and KBR (NYSE:KBR) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, earnings and media sentiment.
Construction Partners has higher earnings, but lower revenue than KBR. KBR is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Construction Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Construction Partners has a net margin of 3.68% compared to KBR's net margin of -3.65%. KBR's return on equity of 26.14% beat Construction Partners' return on equity.
In the previous week, KBR had 1 more articles in the media than Construction Partners. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for KBR and 4 mentions for Construction Partners. Construction Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat KBR's score of 0.29 indicating that Construction Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Construction Partners has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KBR has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
KBR received 374 more outperform votes than Construction Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.30% of users gave KBR an outperform vote while only 59.09% of users gave Construction Partners an outperform vote.
Construction Partners presently has a consensus price target of $54.00, suggesting a potential downside of 7.23%. KBR has a consensus price target of $76.00, suggesting a potential upside of 15.75%. Given KBR's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe KBR is more favorable than Construction Partners.
94.8% of Construction Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of KBR shares are held by institutional investors. 18.8% of Construction Partners shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of KBR shares are held 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.
Summary
KBR beats Construction Partners on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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