SHW vs. CRH, DHI, URI, LEN, OTIS, PWR, MLM, VMC, HWM, and PHM
Should you be buying Sherwin-Williams stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sherwin-Williams include CRH (CRH), D.R. Horton (DHI), United Rentals (URI), Lennar (LEN), Otis Worldwide (OTIS), Quanta Services (PWR), Martin Marietta Materials (MLM), Vulcan Materials (VMC), Howmet Aerospace (HWM), and PulteGroup (PHM). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
CRH (NYSE:CRH) and Sherwin-Williams (NYSE:SHW) are both large-cap construction companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
CRH currently has a consensus price target of $83.28, suggesting a potential upside of 1.69%. Sherwin-Williams has a consensus price target of $340.56, suggesting a potential upside of 9.01%. Given CRH's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Sherwin-Williams is more favorable than CRH.
Sherwin-Williams has a net margin of 10.52% compared to Sherwin-Williams' net margin of 0.00%. CRH's return on equity of 73.74% beat Sherwin-Williams' return on equity.
Sherwin-Williams received 395 more outperform votes than CRH when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.30% of users gave Sherwin-Williams an outperform vote while only 56.28% of users gave CRH an outperform vote.
CRH has higher revenue and earnings than Sherwin-Williams.
CRH pays an annual dividend of $1.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Sherwin-Williams pays an annual dividend of $2.86 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Sherwin-Williams pays out 30.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sherwin-Williams has increased its dividend for 47 consecutive years.
62.5% of CRH shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.7% of Sherwin-Williams shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Sherwin-Williams shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
CRH has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sherwin-Williams has a beta of 1.18, indicating that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, CRH had 7 more articles in the media than Sherwin-Williams. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for CRH and 10 mentions for Sherwin-Williams. CRH's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Sherwin-Williams' score of 0.86 indicating that Sherwin-Williams is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Sherwin-Williams beats CRH on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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