J vs. FER, APG, BLD, TMHC, IBP, ROAD, IESC, GRBK, CCS, and ECG
Should you be buying Jacobs Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Jacobs Solutions include Ferrovial (FER), APi Group (APG), TopBuild (BLD), Taylor Morrison Home (TMHC), Installed Building Products (IBP), Construction Partners (ROAD), IES (IESC), Green Brick Partners (GRBK), Century Communities (CCS), and Everus (ECG). These companies are all part of the "construction" industry.
Jacobs Solutions vs.
Ferrovial (NASDAQ:FER) and Jacobs Solutions (NYSE:J) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment and dividends.
Ferrovial presently has a consensus target price of $48.00, suggesting a potential upside of 7.99%. Jacobs Solutions has a consensus target price of $155.89, suggesting a potential upside of 24.68%. Given Jacobs Solutions' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Jacobs Solutions is more favorable than Ferrovial.
Ferrovial pays an annual dividend of $0.95 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Jacobs Solutions pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Jacobs Solutions pays out 26.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
22.3% of Ferrovial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.7% of Jacobs Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Jacobs Solutions shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Jacobs Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than Ferrovial.
Jacobs Solutions received 98 more outperform votes than Ferrovial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.63% of users gave Jacobs Solutions an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Ferrovial an outperform vote.
Jacobs Solutions has a net margin of 4.28% compared to Ferrovial's net margin of 0.00%. Jacobs Solutions' return on equity of 14.87% beat Ferrovial's return on equity.
In the previous week, Jacobs Solutions had 4 more articles in the media than Ferrovial. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Jacobs Solutions and 14 mentions for Ferrovial. Jacobs Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Ferrovial's score of 0.39 indicating that Jacobs Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Jacobs Solutions beats Ferrovial on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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