JHX vs. SMID, DHI, URI, LEN, PWR, OTIS, MLM, HWM, VMC, and PHM
Should you be buying James Hardie Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of James Hardie Industries include Smith-Midland (SMID), D.R. Horton (DHI), United Rentals (URI), Lennar (LEN), Quanta Services (PWR), Otis Worldwide (OTIS), Martin Marietta Materials (MLM), Howmet Aerospace (HWM), Vulcan Materials (VMC), and PulteGroup (PHM). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Smith-Midland (NASDAQ:SMID) and James Hardie Industries (NYSE:JHX) are both construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, risk and profitability.
Smith-Midland has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, James Hardie Industries has a beta of 1.72, meaning that its share price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500.
James Hardie Industries received 241 more outperform votes than Smith-Midland when rated by MarketBeat users.
James Hardie Industries has a consensus target price of $35.50, indicating a potential upside of 14.37%. Given Smith-Midland's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe James Hardie Industries is more favorable than Smith-Midland.
James Hardie Industries has a net margin of 12.96% compared to James Hardie Industries' net margin of 1.33%. Smith-Midland's return on equity of 38.97% beat James Hardie Industries' return on equity.
James Hardie Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Smith-Midland. James Hardie Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Smith-Midland, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Smith-Midland had 2 more articles in the media than James Hardie Industries. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Smith-Midland and 0 mentions for James Hardie Industries. James Hardie Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Smith-Midland's score of 0.50 indicating that Smith-Midland is being referred to more favorably in the media.
49.9% of Smith-Midland shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.0% of James Hardie Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 5.0% of Smith-Midland shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
James Hardie Industries beats Smith-Midland on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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