WMS vs. TOL, ACM, BLD, FND, FIX, RPM, CX, OC, MAS, and TREX
Should you be buying Advanced Drainage Systems stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Advanced Drainage Systems include Toll Brothers (TOL), AECOM (ACM), TopBuild (BLD), Floor & Decor (FND), Comfort Systems USA (FIX), RPM International (RPM), CEMEX (CX), Owens Corning (OC), Masco (MAS), and Trex (TREX). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Advanced Drainage Systems (NYSE:WMS) and Toll Brothers (NYSE:TOL) are both large-cap construction companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Advanced Drainage Systems has a beta of 1.51, indicating that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Toll Brothers has a beta of 1.67, indicating that its stock price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Toll Brothers received 282 more outperform votes than Advanced Drainage Systems when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.20% of users gave Toll Brothers an outperform vote while only 53.27% of users gave Advanced Drainage Systems an outperform vote.
Advanced Drainage Systems has a net margin of 17.74% compared to Toll Brothers' net margin of 13.97%. Advanced Drainage Systems' return on equity of 46.93% beat Toll Brothers' return on equity.
Advanced Drainage Systems presently has a consensus target price of $175.00, indicating a potential upside of 0.50%. Toll Brothers has a consensus target price of $116.40, indicating a potential downside of 10.97%. Given Advanced Drainage Systems' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Advanced Drainage Systems is more favorable than Toll Brothers.
In the previous week, Advanced Drainage Systems had 6 more articles in the media than Toll Brothers. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Advanced Drainage Systems and 22 mentions for Toll Brothers. Advanced Drainage Systems' average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Toll Brothers' score of 0.71 indicating that Advanced Drainage Systems is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Advanced Drainage Systems pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Toll Brothers pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Advanced Drainage Systems pays out 8.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Toll Brothers pays out 7.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Toll Brothers is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Toll Brothers has higher revenue and earnings than Advanced Drainage Systems. Toll Brothers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Advanced Drainage Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
89.8% of Advanced Drainage Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.8% of Toll Brothers shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.8% of Advanced Drainage Systems shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Toll Brothers shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Toll Brothers beats Advanced Drainage Systems on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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