AZEK vs. AWI, FLR, MTH, IBP, CHX, LPX, SUM, TMHC, ALTR, and AAON
Should you be buying AZEK stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AZEK include Armstrong World Industries (AWI), Fluor (FLR), Meritage Homes (MTH), Installed Building Products (IBP), ChampionX (CHX), Louisiana-Pacific (LPX), Summit Materials (SUM), Taylor Morrison Home (TMHC), Altair Engineering (ALTR), and AAON (AAON). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
AZEK (NYSE:AZEK) and Armstrong World Industries (NYSE:AWI) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and dividends.
Armstrong World Industries received 474 more outperform votes than AZEK when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.10% of users gave Armstrong World Industries an outperform vote while only 43.15% of users gave AZEK an outperform vote.
97.4% of AZEK shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.9% of Armstrong World Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of AZEK shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Armstrong World Industries shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Armstrong World Industries has a net margin of 18.03% compared to AZEK's net margin of 8.57%. Armstrong World Industries' return on equity of 41.81% beat AZEK's return on equity.
AZEK has a beta of 1.93, suggesting that its share price is 93% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Armstrong World Industries has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
AZEK presently has a consensus target price of $44.83, indicating a potential downside of 3.85%. Armstrong World Industries has a consensus target price of $110.17, indicating a potential downside of 3.25%. Given Armstrong World Industries' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Armstrong World Industries is more favorable than AZEK.
In the previous week, AZEK had 10 more articles in the media than Armstrong World Industries. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for AZEK and 5 mentions for Armstrong World Industries. Armstrong World Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat AZEK's score of 0.94 indicating that Armstrong World Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Armstrong World Industries has lower revenue, but higher earnings than AZEK. Armstrong World Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AZEK, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Armstrong World Industries beats AZEK on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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