Everus (ECG) Competitors

Everus (NYSE:ECG) and TopBuild (NYSE:BLD) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership and risk.

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of ECG or BLD?

95.7% of TopBuild shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of TopBuild shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Is ECG or BLD more profitable?

TopBuild has a net margin of 11.66% compared to Everus' net margin of 0.00%. TopBuild's return on equity of 26.40% beat Everus' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Everus	N/A	N/A	N/A
TopBuild	11.66%	26.40%	12.85%

Do analysts prefer ECG or BLD?

Everus presently has a consensus price target of $67.33, suggesting a potential upside of 54.42%. TopBuild has a consensus price target of $437.00, suggesting a potential upside of 43.86%. Given Everus' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Everus is more favorable than TopBuild.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Everus	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50
TopBuild	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.63

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer ECG or BLD?

TopBuild received 457 more outperform votes than Everus when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 85.71% of users gave Everus an outperform vote while only 68.69% of users gave TopBuild an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Everus	Outperform Votes 6 85.71%	Underperform Votes 1 14.29%
TopBuild	Outperform Votes 463 68.69%	Underperform Votes 211 31.31%

Which has better earnings & valuation, ECG or BLD?

TopBuild has higher revenue and earnings than Everus.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Everus	$2.85B	0.78	$143.42M	N/A	N/A
TopBuild	$5.19B	1.73	$614.25M	$19.82	15.33

Does the media prefer ECG or BLD?

In the previous week, Everus had 6 more articles in the media than TopBuild. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Everus and 5 mentions for TopBuild. Everus' average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat TopBuild's score of 0.93 indicating that Everus is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Everus	8 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
TopBuild	4 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

TopBuild beats Everus on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.