EXP vs. CX, TREX, KBR, MTZ, AYI, UFPI, SSD, ALTR, SUM, and AZEK
Should you be buying Eagle Materials stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eagle Materials include CEMEX (CX), Trex (TREX), KBR (KBR), MasTec (MTZ), Acuity Brands (AYI), UFP Industries (UFPI), Simpson Manufacturing (SSD), Altair Engineering (ALTR), Summit Materials (SUM), and AZEK (AZEK). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Eagle Materials (NYSE:EXP) and CEMEX (NYSE:CX) are both construction companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings and dividends.
Eagle Materials presently has a consensus target price of $263.50, suggesting a potential upside of 2.81%. CEMEX has a consensus target price of $9.46, suggesting a potential upside of 21.40%. Given CEMEX's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe CEMEX is more favorable than Eagle Materials.
CEMEX received 103 more outperform votes than Eagle Materials when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.15% of users gave Eagle Materials an outperform vote while only 63.81% of users gave CEMEX an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Eagle Materials had 2 more articles in the media than CEMEX. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Eagle Materials and 8 mentions for CEMEX. Eagle Materials' average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat CEMEX's score of 0.41 indicating that Eagle Materials is being referred to more favorably in the media.
96.1% of Eagle Materials shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.0% of CEMEX shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Eagle Materials shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of CEMEX shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Eagle Materials has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CEMEX. Eagle Materials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CEMEX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Eagle Materials has a beta of 1.35, suggesting that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CEMEX has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Eagle Materials has a net margin of 22.24% compared to CEMEX's net margin of 1.28%. Eagle Materials' return on equity of 40.05% beat CEMEX's return on equity.
Summary
Eagle Materials beats CEMEX on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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