AYI vs. MTZ, UFPI, SSD, KBR, ALTR, SUM, EXP, AZEK, FLR, and MTH
Should you be buying Acuity Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Acuity Brands include MasTec (MTZ), UFP Industries (UFPI), Simpson Manufacturing (SSD), KBR (KBR), Altair Engineering (ALTR), Summit Materials (SUM), Eagle Materials (EXP), AZEK (AZEK), Fluor (FLR), and Meritage Homes (MTH). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
MasTec (NYSE:MTZ) and Acuity Brands (NYSE:AYI) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and institutional ownership.
MasTec has a beta of 1.61, meaning that its stock price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Acuity Brands has a beta of 1.47, meaning that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.
78.1% of MasTec shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.2% of Acuity Brands shares are held by institutional investors. 21.3% of MasTec shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Acuity Brands shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Acuity Brands has a net margin of 9.81% compared to Acuity Brands' net margin of -0.09%. MasTec's return on equity of 21.22% beat Acuity Brands' return on equity.
MasTec received 10 more outperform votes than Acuity Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.55% of users gave MasTec an outperform vote while only 68.16% of users gave Acuity Brands an outperform vote.
MasTec presently has a consensus price target of $111.62, indicating a potential upside of 3.99%. Acuity Brands has a consensus price target of $289.25, indicating a potential upside of 11.44%. Given MasTec's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Acuity Brands is more favorable than MasTec.
Acuity Brands has lower revenue, but higher earnings than MasTec. MasTec is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Acuity Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, MasTec had 9 more articles in the media than Acuity Brands. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for MasTec and 5 mentions for Acuity Brands. MasTec's average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Acuity Brands' score of 0.86 indicating that Acuity Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Acuity Brands beats MasTec on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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