IESC vs. FIX, PWR, EME, NICE, JKHY, MNDY, SNX, TOST, ONTO, and WWD
Should you be buying IES stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IES include Comfort Systems USA (FIX), Quanta Services (PWR), EMCOR Group (EME), NICE (NICE), Jack Henry & Associates (JKHY), monday.com (MNDY), TD SYNNEX (SNX), Toast (TOST), Onto Innovation (ONTO), and Woodward (WWD).
Comfort Systems USA (NYSE:FIX) and IES (NASDAQ:IESC) are both construction companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings and institutional ownership.
Comfort Systems USA has higher revenue and earnings than IES. IES is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Comfort Systems USA, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Comfort Systems USA presently has a consensus price target of $302.00, suggesting a potential downside of 7.74%. Given IES's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Comfort Systems USA is more favorable than IES.
Comfort Systems USA has a net margin of 6.51% compared to Comfort Systems USA's net margin of 5.27%. Comfort Systems USA's return on equity of 30.22% beat IES's return on equity.
Comfort Systems USA received 70 more outperform votes than IES when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.08% of users gave Comfort Systems USA an outperform vote while only 64.00% of users gave IES an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Comfort Systems USA had 4 more articles in the media than IES. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Comfort Systems USA and 7 mentions for IES. Comfort Systems USA's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat IES's score of 0.84 indicating that IES is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Comfort Systems USA has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IES has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
96.5% of Comfort Systems USA shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.6% of IES shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Comfort Systems USA shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 59.2% of IES shares are held 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.
Summary
Comfort Systems USA beats IES on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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