OC vs. LII, BLDR, MAS, AAON, AOS, TREX, UFPI, SSD, AWI, and GFF
Should you be buying Owens Corning stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Owens Corning include Lennox International (LII), Builders FirstSource (BLDR), Masco (MAS), AAON (AAON), A. O. Smith (AOS), Trex (TREX), UFP Industries (UFPI), Simpson Manufacturing (SSD), Armstrong World Industries (AWI), and Griffon (GFF). These companies are all part of the "building products" industry.
Owens Corning vs.
Lennox International (NYSE:LII) and Owens Corning (NYSE:OC) are both large-cap construction companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Owens Corning has higher revenue and earnings than Lennox International. Owens Corning is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lennox International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lennox International currently has a consensus target price of $590.50, suggesting a potential downside of 8.86%. Owens Corning has a consensus target price of $201.75, suggesting a potential upside of 10.33%. Given Owens Corning's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Owens Corning is more favorable than Lennox International.
Lennox International pays an annual dividend of $4.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Owens Corning pays an annual dividend of $2.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Lennox International pays out 21.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Owens Corning pays out 23.5% 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. Lennox International has increased its dividend for 15 consecutive years.
Lennox International has a net margin of 14.63% compared to Owens Corning's net margin of 9.92%. Lennox International's return on equity of 148.52% beat Owens Corning's return on equity.
In the previous week, Lennox International had 5 more articles in the media than Owens Corning. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Lennox International and 8 mentions for Owens Corning. Owens Corning's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Lennox International's score of 0.64 indicating that Owens Corning is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Owens Corning received 363 more outperform votes than Lennox International when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.22% of users gave Owens Corning an outperform vote while only 47.27% of users gave Lennox International an outperform vote.
67.1% of Lennox International shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.4% of Owens Corning shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.4% of Lennox International shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Owens Corning shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Lennox International has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Owens Corning has a beta of 1.46, suggesting that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Owens Corning beats Lennox International on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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