BCC vs. LPX, BECN, GMS, ASPN, SGBX, WSO, WSO.B, LII, EME, and OC
Should you be buying Boise Cascade stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Boise Cascade include Louisiana-Pacific (LPX), Beacon Roofing Supply (BECN), GMS (GMS), Aspen Aerogels (ASPN), Safe & Green (SGBX), Watsco (WSO), Watsco (WSO.B), Lennox International (LII), EMCOR Group (EME), and Owens Corning (OC).
Boise Cascade (NYSE:BCC) and Louisiana-Pacific (NYSE:LPX) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings and profitability.
96.2% of Boise Cascade shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.7% of Louisiana-Pacific shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Boise Cascade shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Louisiana-Pacific shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Boise Cascade has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Louisiana-Pacific has a beta of 1.92, suggesting that its stock price is 92% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Boise Cascade had 2 more articles in the media than Louisiana-Pacific. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Boise Cascade and 5 mentions for Louisiana-Pacific. Boise Cascade's average media sentiment score of 1.37 beat Louisiana-Pacific's score of 1.05 indicating that Boise Cascade is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Boise Cascade pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Louisiana-Pacific pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Boise Cascade pays out 6.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Louisiana-Pacific pays out 28.6% 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.
Boise Cascade presently has a consensus target price of $131.75, suggesting a potential upside of 2.20%. Louisiana-Pacific has a consensus target price of $83.89, suggesting a potential downside of 6.77%. Given Boise Cascade's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Boise Cascade is more favorable than Louisiana-Pacific.
Boise Cascade has higher revenue and earnings than Louisiana-Pacific. Boise Cascade is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Louisiana-Pacific, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Louisiana-Pacific has a net margin of 9.74% compared to Boise Cascade's net margin of 7.08%. Boise Cascade's return on equity of 22.00% beat Louisiana-Pacific's return on equity.
Louisiana-Pacific received 67 more outperform votes than Boise Cascade when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.56% of users gave Boise Cascade an outperform vote while only 55.93% of users gave Louisiana-Pacific an outperform vote.
Summary
Boise Cascade beats Louisiana-Pacific on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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