FER vs. J, KBR, FLR, STRL, ROAD, GVA, GLDD, ORN, SLND, and SHIM
Should you be buying Ferrovial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ferrovial include Jacobs Solutions (J), KBR (KBR), Fluor (FLR), Sterling Infrastructure (STRL), Construction Partners (ROAD), Granite Construction (GVA), Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), Orion Group (ORN), Southland (SLND), and Shimmick (SHIM). These companies are all part of the "heavy construction, except building construction - contractors" industry.
Ferrovial (NASDAQ:FER) and Jacobs Solutions (NYSE:J) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations and risk.
Jacobs Solutions has a net margin of 3.83% compared to Ferrovial's net margin of 0.00%. Jacobs Solutions' return on equity of 14.59% beat Ferrovial's return on equity.
Jacobs Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than Ferrovial.
Ferrovial presently has a consensus price target of $48.00, suggesting a potential upside of 18.17%. Jacobs Solutions has a consensus price target of $156.82, suggesting a potential upside of 14.68%. Given Ferrovial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Ferrovial is more favorable than Jacobs Solutions.
Jacobs Solutions received 80 more outperform votes than Ferrovial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Ferrovial an outperform vote while only 74.31% of users gave Jacobs Solutions an outperform vote.
85.7% of Jacobs Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Jacobs Solutions shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Jacobs Solutions had 8 more articles in the media than Ferrovial. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Jacobs Solutions and 2 mentions for Ferrovial. Ferrovial's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Jacobs Solutions' score of 0.82 indicating that Ferrovial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Jacobs Solutions beats Ferrovial on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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