GVA vs. MTZ, KBR, FLR, DY, STRL, PRIM, MYRG, AMRC, TPC, and AGX
Should you be buying Granite Construction stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Granite Construction include MasTec (MTZ), KBR (KBR), Fluor (FLR), Dycom Industries (DY), Sterling Infrastructure (STRL), Primoris Services (PRIM), MYR Group (MYRG), Ameresco (AMRC), Tutor Perini (TPC), and Argan (AGX). These companies are all part of the "construction & engineering" industry.
MasTec (NYSE:MTZ) and Granite Construction (NYSE:GVA) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
MasTec presently has a consensus target price of $116.23, indicating a potential upside of 3.55%. Granite Construction has a consensus target price of $57.00, indicating a potential downside of 8.49%. Given Granite Construction's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe MasTec is more favorable than Granite Construction.
Granite Construction has lower revenue, but higher earnings than MasTec. MasTec is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Granite Construction, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MasTec has a beta of 1.61, meaning that its share price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Granite Construction has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, MasTec had 4 more articles in the media than Granite Construction. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for MasTec and 4 mentions for Granite Construction. Granite Construction's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat MasTec's score of 0.72 indicating that MasTec is being referred to more favorably in the media.
78.1% of MasTec shares are held by institutional investors. 21.3% of MasTec shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Granite Construction shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
MasTec received 345 more outperform votes than Granite Construction when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.50% of users gave MasTec an outperform vote while only 57.59% of users gave Granite Construction an outperform vote.
Granite Construction has a net margin of 0.98% compared to Granite Construction's net margin of -0.09%. MasTec's return on equity of 14.91% beat Granite Construction's return on equity.
Summary
MasTec beats Granite Construction on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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