LPX vs. BCC, TREX, KOP, EVA, PHM, NVR, ROL, WY, WSO, and EME
Should you be buying Louisiana-Pacific stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Louisiana-Pacific include Boise Cascade (BCC), Trex (TREX), Koppers (KOP), Enviva (EVA), PulteGroup (PHM), NVR (NVR), Rollins (ROL), Weyerhaeuser (WY), Watsco (WSO), and EMCOR Group (EME).
Boise Cascade (NYSE:BCC) and Louisiana-Pacific (NYSE:LPX) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, community ranking and profitability.
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.
96.2% of Boise Cascade shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.7% of Louisiana-Pacific shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Boise Cascade shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Louisiana-Pacific shares are held by company 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.
Boise Cascade has a beta of 1.64, suggesting that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Louisiana-Pacific has a beta of 1.87, suggesting that its stock price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Louisiana-Pacific has a net margin of 9.74% compared to Louisiana-Pacific's net margin of 7.08%. Louisiana-Pacific's return on equity of 22.00% beat Boise Cascade's return on equity.
In the previous week, Louisiana-Pacific had 6 more articles in the media than Boise Cascade. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Louisiana-Pacific and 2 mentions for Boise Cascade. Louisiana-Pacific's average media sentiment score of 1.37 beat Boise Cascade's score of 0.96 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 has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years and Louisiana-Pacific has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years.
Boise Cascade currently has a consensus target price of $125.00, indicating a potential downside of 8.09%. Louisiana-Pacific has a consensus target price of $83.89, indicating a potential downside of 6.41%. Given Boise Cascade's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Louisiana-Pacific is more favorable than Boise Cascade.
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.
Summary
Louisiana-Pacific beats Boise Cascade on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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