SHIM vs. J, KBR, FLR, STRL, ROAD, GVA, GLDD, ORN, SLND, and GSMG
Should you be buying Shimmick stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Shimmick include Jacobs Solutions (J), KBR (KBR), Fluor (FLR), Sterling Infrastructure (STRL), Construction Partners (ROAD), Granite Construction (GVA), Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), Orion Group (ORN), Southland (SLND), and Glory Star New Media Group (GSMG).
Jacobs Solutions (NYSE:J) and Shimmick (NASDAQ:SHIM) are both business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking and media sentiment.
Jacobs Solutions currently has a consensus target price of $156.82, indicating a potential upside of 12.54%. Shimmick has a consensus target price of $3.75, indicating a potential upside of 91.33%. Given Jacobs Solutions' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Shimmick is more favorable than Jacobs Solutions.
Jacobs Solutions received 74 more outperform votes than Shimmick when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.58% of users gave Jacobs Solutions an outperform vote while only 57.14% of users gave Shimmick an outperform vote.
Jacobs Solutions has a net margin of 3.83% compared to Jacobs Solutions' net margin of 0.00%. Shimmick's return on equity of 14.59% beat Jacobs Solutions' return on equity.
Jacobs Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than Shimmick.
85.7% of Jacobs Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.9% of Shimmick shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Jacobs Solutions shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 92.3% of Shimmick shares are owned by company 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, Jacobs Solutions had 13 more articles in the media than Shimmick. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Jacobs Solutions and 1 mentions for Shimmick. Jacobs Solutions' average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Shimmick's score of 0.60 indicating that Shimmick is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Jacobs Solutions beats Shimmick on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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