KNF vs. USLM, SUM, DY, GTES, ACA, RYN, SKY, STRL, TPH, and AWI
Should you be buying Knife River stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Knife River include United States Lime & Minerals (USLM), Summit Materials (SUM), Dycom Industries (DY), Gates Industrial (GTES), Arcosa (ACA), Rayonier (RYN), Skyline Champion (SKY), Sterling Infrastructure (STRL), Tri Pointe Homes (TPH), and Armstrong World Industries (AWI). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Knife River (NYSE:KNF) and United States Lime & Minerals (NASDAQ:USLM) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, profitability and dividends.
United States Lime & Minerals received 180 more outperform votes than Knife River when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.13% of users gave United States Lime & Minerals an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Knife River an outperform vote.
80.1% of Knife River shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.1% of United States Lime & Minerals shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Knife River shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of United States Lime & Minerals shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
United States Lime & Minerals has a net margin of 27.91% compared to Knife River's net margin of 6.19%. United States Lime & Minerals' return on equity of 20.70% beat Knife River's return on equity.
Knife River has higher revenue and earnings than United States Lime & Minerals. Knife River is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than United States Lime & Minerals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Knife River currently has a consensus price target of $76.20, indicating a potential upside of 2.88%. Given Knife River's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Knife River is more favorable than United States Lime & Minerals.
In the previous week, Knife River and Knife River both had 2 articles in the media. United States Lime & Minerals' average media sentiment score of 1.41 beat Knife River's score of 0.81 indicating that United States Lime & Minerals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
United States Lime & Minerals beats Knife River on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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