UFPI vs. LII, BLDR, OC, MAS, AOS, TREX, SSD, AAON, AWI, and GFF
Should you be buying UFP Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of UFP Industries include Lennox International (LII), Builders FirstSource (BLDR), Owens Corning (OC), Masco (MAS), A. O. Smith (AOS), Trex (TREX), Simpson Manufacturing (SSD), AAON (AAON), Armstrong World Industries (AWI), and Griffon (GFF). These companies are all part of the "building products" industry.
Lennox International (NYSE:LII) and UFP Industries (NASDAQ:UFPI) are both construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
Lennox International has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, UFP Industries has a beta of 1.45, indicating that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lennox International presently has a consensus target price of $484.62, indicating a potential downside of 2.50%. UFP Industries has a consensus target price of $116.50, indicating a potential upside of 2.37%. Given Lennox International's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe UFP Industries is more favorable than Lennox International.
Lennox International pays an annual dividend of $4.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. UFP Industries pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Lennox International pays out 25.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. UFP Industries pays out 16.4% 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 1 consecutive years and UFP Industries has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years. UFP Industries is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Lennox International has a net margin of 12.38% compared to Lennox International's net margin of 7.24%. UFP Industries' return on equity of 303.36% beat Lennox International's return on equity.
Lennox International received 88 more outperform votes than UFP Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.92% of users gave UFP Industries an outperform vote while only 47.76% of users gave Lennox International an outperform vote.
67.1% of Lennox International shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.8% of UFP Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.4% of Lennox International shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of UFP Industries shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Lennox International had 1 more articles in the media than UFP Industries. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Lennox International and 3 mentions for UFP Industries. UFP Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.63 beat Lennox International's score of 1.16 indicating that Lennox International is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lennox International has higher earnings, but lower revenue than UFP Industries. UFP Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lennox International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Lennox International beats UFP Industries on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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