SUM vs. KNF, USLM, ALTR, SSD, UFPI, AZEK, FLR, MTH, IBP, and CHX
Should you be buying Summit Materials stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Summit Materials include Knife River (KNF), United States Lime & Minerals (USLM), Altair Engineering (ALTR), Simpson Manufacturing (SSD), UFP Industries (UFPI), AZEK (AZEK), Fluor (FLR), Meritage Homes (MTH), Installed Building Products (IBP), and ChampionX (CHX). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Knife River (NYSE:KNF) and Summit Materials (NYSE:SUM) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and dividends.
In the previous week, Knife River had 2 more articles in the media than Summit Materials. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Knife River and 5 mentions for Summit Materials. Knife River's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Summit Materials' score of 0.84 indicating that Summit Materials is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summit Materials has a net margin of 8.36% compared to Summit Materials' net margin of 6.19%. Summit Materials' return on equity of 14.65% beat Knife River's return on equity.
Knife River currently has a consensus price target of $76.20, suggesting a potential upside of 8.59%. Summit Materials has a consensus price target of $46.92, suggesting a potential upside of 21.23%. Given Knife River's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Summit Materials is more favorable than Knife River.
80.1% of Knife River shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Knife River shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Summit Materials shares are owned by 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.
Summit Materials received 406 more outperform votes than Knife River when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave Knife River an outperform vote while only 62.42% of users gave Summit Materials an outperform vote.
Summit Materials has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Knife River. Summit Materials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Knife River, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Knife River beats Summit Materials on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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