AAON vs. BLDR, LII, OC, MAS, AOS, TREX, UFPI, SSD, AWI, and GFF
Should you be buying AAON stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AAON include Builders FirstSource (BLDR), Lennox International (LII), Owens Corning (OC), Masco (MAS), 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.
Builders FirstSource (NYSE:BLDR) and AAON (NASDAQ:AAON) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, dividends, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability and analyst recommendations.
95.5% of Builders FirstSource shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.8% of AAON shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Builders FirstSource shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.6% of AAON shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Builders FirstSource has a beta of 2.08, meaning that its stock price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AAON has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Builders FirstSource received 313 more outperform votes than AAON when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.92% of users gave Builders FirstSource an outperform vote while only 56.01% of users gave AAON an outperform vote.
Builders FirstSource has higher revenue and earnings than AAON. Builders FirstSource is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AAON, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Builders FirstSource presently has a consensus target price of $195.13, suggesting a potential upside of 34.55%. Given AAON's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Builders FirstSource is more favorable than AAON.
AAON has a net margin of 15.44% compared to AAON's net margin of 8.57%. AAON's return on equity of 38.66% beat Builders FirstSource's return on equity.
In the previous week, Builders FirstSource had 19 more articles in the media than AAON. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Builders FirstSource and 1 mentions for AAON. Builders FirstSource's average media sentiment score of 1.79 beat AAON's score of 0.81 indicating that AAON is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Builders FirstSource beats AAON on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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