JEC vs. PWR, EME, FIX, ACM, MTZ, KBR, FLR, DY, STRL, and PRIM
Should you be buying Jacobs Engineering Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Jacobs Engineering Group include Quanta Services (PWR), EMCOR Group (EME), Comfort Systems USA (FIX), AECOM (ACM), MasTec (MTZ), KBR (KBR), Fluor (FLR), Dycom Industries (DY), Sterling Infrastructure (STRL), and Primoris Services (PRIM). These companies are all part of the "construction & engineering" industry.
Quanta Services (NYSE:PWR) and Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE:JEC) are both large-cap construction companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.
Jacobs Engineering Group has a net margin of 6.66% compared to Jacobs Engineering Group's net margin of 3.57%. Jacobs Engineering Group's return on equity of 16.25% beat Quanta Services' return on equity.
In the previous week, Quanta Services had 15 more articles in the media than Jacobs Engineering Group. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Quanta Services and 0 mentions for Jacobs Engineering Group. Jacobs Engineering Group's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Quanta Services' score of 0.00 indicating that Quanta Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Jacobs Engineering Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Quanta Services. Jacobs Engineering Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Quanta Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Quanta Services pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Jacobs Engineering Group pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Quanta Services pays out 7.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Jacobs Engineering Group pays out 13.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Quanta Services has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Quanta Services received 51 more outperform votes than Jacobs Engineering Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.21% of users gave Quanta Services an outperform vote while only 66.88% of users gave Jacobs Engineering Group an outperform vote.
Quanta Services presently has a consensus target price of $268.85, indicating a potential downside of 2.57%. Given Jacobs Engineering Group's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Quanta Services is more favorable than Jacobs Engineering Group.
Quanta Services has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Jacobs Engineering Group has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
90.5% of Quanta Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.6% of Jacobs Engineering Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Quanta Services shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Jacobs Engineering Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Quanta Services beats Jacobs Engineering Group on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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