ORN vs. TPC, AGX, GLDD, NWPX, MTRX, PWR, EME, FIX, ACM, and KBR
Should you be buying Orion Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Orion Group include Tutor Perini (TPC), Argan (AGX), Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), Northwest Pipe (NWPX), Matrix Service (MTRX), Quanta Services (PWR), EMCOR Group (EME), Comfort Systems USA (FIX), AECOM (ACM), and KBR (KBR). These companies are all part of the "construction & engineering" industry.
Tutor Perini (NYSE:TPC) and Orion Group (NYSE:ORN) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Tutor Perini presently has a consensus price target of $11.00, indicating a potential downside of 50.14%. Orion Group has a consensus price target of $11.75, indicating a potential upside of 9.00%. Given Tutor Perini's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Orion Group is more favorable than Tutor Perini.
65.0% of Tutor Perini shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.3% of Orion Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.5% of Tutor Perini shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.3% of Orion Group shares are owned by 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.
In the previous week, Tutor Perini had 1 more articles in the media than Orion Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Tutor Perini and 2 mentions for Orion Group. Tutor Perini's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Orion Group's score of 0.73 indicating that Orion Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Tutor Perini has a beta of 1.53, indicating that its stock price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Orion Group has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Orion Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Tutor Perini. Orion Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tutor Perini, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Orion Group received 111 more outperform votes than Tutor Perini when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.74% of users gave Tutor Perini an outperform vote while only 62.87% of users gave Orion Group an outperform vote.
Orion Group has a net margin of -1.59% compared to Orion Group's net margin of -2.56%. Tutor Perini's return on equity of -4.14% beat Orion Group's return on equity.
Summary
Orion Group beats Tutor Perini on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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