IBP vs. GEO, XIN, LEN, NVR, ROL, WY, WSO, EME, WSO.B, and LII
Should you be buying Installed Building Products stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Installed Building Products include The GEO Group (GEO), Xinyuan Real Estate (XIN), Lennar (LEN), NVR (NVR), Rollins (ROL), Weyerhaeuser (WY), Watsco (WSO), EMCOR Group (EME), Watsco (WSO.B), and Lennox International (LII).
The GEO Group (NYSE:GEO) and Installed Building Products (NYSE:IBP) are both business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, earnings and community ranking.
The GEO Group presently has a consensus target price of $17.00, indicating a potential upside of 16.92%. Installed Building Products has a consensus target price of $229.30, indicating a potential upside of 8.24%. Given Installed Building Products' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe The GEO Group is more favorable than Installed Building Products.
The GEO Group has a beta of 0.59, suggesting that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Installed Building Products has a beta of 1.91, suggesting that its share price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Installed Building Products has a net margin of 8.90% compared to Installed Building Products' net margin of 4.51%. The GEO Group's return on equity of 45.41% beat Installed Building Products' return on equity.
In the previous week, The GEO Group had 7 more articles in the media than Installed Building Products. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for The GEO Group and 3 mentions for Installed Building Products. The GEO Group's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Installed Building Products' score of 0.28 indicating that Installed Building Products is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Installed Building Products has higher revenue and earnings than The GEO Group. The GEO Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Installed Building Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
76.1% of The GEO Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.6% of Installed Building Products shares are held by institutional investors. 5.3% of The GEO Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.5% of Installed Building Products shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
The GEO Group received 183 more outperform votes than Installed Building Products when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.71% of users gave The GEO Group an outperform vote while only 64.73% of users gave Installed Building Products an outperform vote.
Summary
Installed Building Products beats The GEO Group on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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