SHIM vs. J, KBR, FLR, STRL, ROAD, GVA, GLDD, ORN, SLND, and QRHC
Should you be buying Shimmick stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Shimmick include Jacobs Solutions (J), KBR (KBR), Fluor (FLR), Sterling Infrastructure (STRL), Construction Partners (ROAD), Granite Construction (GVA), Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), Orion Group (ORN), Southland (SLND), and Quest Resource (QRHC).
Shimmick (NASDAQ:SHIM) and Jacobs Solutions (NYSE:J) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends and valuation.
6.9% of Shimmick shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.7% of Jacobs Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. 92.3% of Shimmick shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Jacobs Solutions shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Jacobs Solutions received 75 more outperform votes than Shimmick when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.83% of users gave Jacobs Solutions an outperform vote while only 57.14% of users gave Shimmick an outperform vote.
Jacobs Solutions has a net margin of 3.83% compared to Shimmick's net margin of 0.00%. Jacobs Solutions' return on equity of 14.59% beat Shimmick's return on equity.
In the previous week, Jacobs Solutions had 15 more articles in the media than Shimmick. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Jacobs Solutions and 0 mentions for Shimmick. Jacobs Solutions' average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Shimmick's score of 0.00 indicating that Jacobs Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Jacobs Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than Shimmick.
Shimmick presently has a consensus price target of $3.75, suggesting a potential upside of 115.52%. Jacobs Solutions has a consensus price target of $156.82, suggesting a potential upside of 12.77%. Given Shimmick's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Shimmick is more favorable than Jacobs Solutions.
Summary
Jacobs Solutions beats Shimmick on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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