EVA vs. TREX, LPX, KOP, GLT, CHCI, TISI, TURN, NWGL, SUGP, and OESX
Should you be buying Enviva stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Enviva include Trex (TREX), Louisiana-Pacific (LPX), Koppers (KOP), Glatfelter (GLT), Comstock Holding Companies (CHCI), Team (TISI), 180 Degree Capital (TURN), Nature Wood Group (NWGL), SU Group (SUGP), and Orion Energy Systems (OESX).
Trex (NYSE:TREX) and Enviva (NYSE:EVA) are both construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.
Trex has higher revenue and earnings than Enviva. Enviva is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Trex, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Trex currently has a consensus target price of $89.47, suggesting a potential upside of 3.46%. Enviva has a consensus target price of $7.50, suggesting a potential upside of 1,215.79%. Given Trex's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Enviva is more favorable than Trex.
96.0% of Trex shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.8% of Enviva shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Trex shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 54.1% of Enviva shares are owned 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.
Trex has a net margin of 20.60% compared to Trex's net margin of -29.65%. Enviva's return on equity of 35.33% beat Trex's return on equity.
Trex has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enviva has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Trex had 8 more articles in the media than Enviva. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Trex and 0 mentions for Enviva. Enviva's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Trex's score of 0.00 indicating that Trex is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Trex received 102 more outperform votes than Enviva when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.36% of users gave Enviva an outperform vote while only 55.40% of users gave Trex an outperform vote.
Summary
Trex beats Enviva on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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