USLM vs. FBIN, EXP, CX, WFG, SKY, ACA, TGLS, CXT, HLIO, and JBI
Should you be buying United States Lime & Minerals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of United States Lime & Minerals include Fortune Brands Innovations (FBIN), Eagle Materials (EXP), CEMEX (CX), West Fraser Timber (WFG), Skyline Champion (SKY), Arcosa (ACA), Tecnoglass (TGLS), Crane NXT (CXT), Helios Technologies (HLIO), and Janus International Group (JBI). These companies are all part of the "construction materials" industry.
United States Lime & Minerals vs.
United States Lime & Minerals (NASDAQ:USLM) and Fortune Brands Innovations (NYSE:FBIN) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, risk and community ranking.
27.1% of United States Lime & Minerals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.6% of Fortune Brands Innovations shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of United States Lime & Minerals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Fortune Brands Innovations shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Fortune Brands Innovations has a consensus target price of $89.36, suggesting a potential upside of 22.67%. Given Fortune Brands Innovations' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Fortune Brands Innovations is more favorable than United States Lime & Minerals.
In the previous week, Fortune Brands Innovations had 11 more articles in the media than United States Lime & Minerals. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Fortune Brands Innovations and 0 mentions for United States Lime & Minerals. Fortune Brands Innovations' average media sentiment score of 0.08 beat United States Lime & Minerals' score of 0.00 indicating that Fortune Brands Innovations is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Fortune Brands Innovations has higher revenue and earnings than United States Lime & Minerals. Fortune Brands Innovations 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.
United States Lime & Minerals has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fortune Brands Innovations has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
United States Lime & Minerals has a net margin of 32.60% compared to Fortune Brands Innovations' net margin of 9.61%. United States Lime & Minerals' return on equity of 22.95% beat Fortune Brands Innovations' return on equity.
United States Lime & Minerals pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Fortune Brands Innovations pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. United States Lime & Minerals pays out 5.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fortune Brands Innovations pays out 27.0% 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.
United States Lime & Minerals received 164 more outperform votes than Fortune Brands Innovations when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.86% of users gave United States Lime & Minerals an outperform vote while only 44.07% of users gave Fortune Brands Innovations an outperform vote.
Summary
Fortune Brands Innovations beats United States Lime & Minerals on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:USLM) was last updated on 1/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff