ROCK vs. WOR, HAYN, UFPI, SSD, AAON, AWI, GFF, PATK, APOG, and AMWD
Should you be buying Gibraltar Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gibraltar Industries include Worthington Enterprises (WOR), Haynes International (HAYN), UFP Industries (UFPI), Simpson Manufacturing (SSD), AAON (AAON), Armstrong World Industries (AWI), Griffon (GFF), Patrick Industries (PATK), Apogee Enterprises (APOG), and American Woodmark (AMWD).
Worthington Enterprises (NYSE:WOR) and Gibraltar Industries (NASDAQ:ROCK) are both mid-cap multi-sector conglomerates companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.
In the previous week, Worthington Enterprises had 7 more articles in the media than Gibraltar Industries. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Worthington Enterprises and 0 mentions for Gibraltar Industries. Gibraltar Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Worthington Enterprises' score of 0.00 indicating that Worthington Enterprises is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Worthington Enterprises has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gibraltar Industries has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Worthington Enterprises has higher revenue and earnings than Gibraltar Industries. Worthington Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gibraltar Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
51.6% of Worthington Enterprises shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.4% of Gibraltar Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 38.5% of Worthington Enterprises shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Gibraltar Industries shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Worthington Enterprises received 27 more outperform votes than Gibraltar Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.34% of users gave Gibraltar Industries an outperform vote while only 53.72% of users gave Worthington Enterprises an outperform vote.
Worthington Enterprises currently has a consensus target price of $61.00, indicating a potential upside of 14.43%. Given Gibraltar Industries' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Worthington Enterprises is more favorable than Gibraltar Industries.
Gibraltar Industries has a net margin of 8.31% compared to Gibraltar Industries' net margin of 7.12%. Gibraltar Industries' return on equity of 19.40% beat Worthington Enterprises' return on equity.
Summary
Worthington Enterprises beats Gibraltar Industries on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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