CRH vs. CX, EXP, LOMA, CPAC, SHW, DHI, LEN, URI, OTIS, and PWR
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), Lennar (LEN), United Rentals (URI), Otis Worldwide (OTIS), and Quanta Services (PWR). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
CRH (NYSE:CRH) and CEMEX (NYSE:CX) are both construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk and profitability.
CRH has higher revenue and earnings than CEMEX.
CRH has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CEMEX has a beta of 1.47, suggesting that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CRH currently has a consensus price target of $83.28, indicating a potential upside of 7.01%. CEMEX has a consensus price target of $9.46, indicating a potential upside of 43.07%. Given CEMEX's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe CEMEX is more favorable than CRH.
In the previous week, CRH had 2 more articles in the media than CEMEX. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for CRH and 3 mentions for CEMEX. CRH's average media sentiment score of 1.75 beat CEMEX's score of 1.46 indicating that CRH is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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 insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
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.
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.
Summary
CEMEX beats CRH on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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