TPC vs. HOV, BZH, LOMA, BXC, AGX, NX, JELD, VSEC, GLDD, and NOA
Should you be buying Tutor Perini stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tutor Perini include Hovnanian Enterprises (HOV), Beazer Homes USA (BZH), Loma Negra Compañía Industrial Argentina Sociedad Anónima (LOMA), BlueLinx (BXC), Argan (AGX), Quanex Building Products (NX), JELD-WEN (JELD), VSE (VSEC), Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), and North American Construction Group (NOA). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Hovnanian Enterprises (NYSE:HOV) and Tutor Perini (NYSE:TPC) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations and earnings.
In the previous week, Hovnanian Enterprises and Hovnanian Enterprises both had 3 articles in the media. Hovnanian Enterprises' average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Tutor Perini's score of 0.69 indicating that Tutor Perini is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Tutor Perini has a consensus price target of $11.00, suggesting a potential downside of 44.11%. Given Hovnanian Enterprises' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Tutor Perini is more favorable than Hovnanian Enterprises.
Hovnanian Enterprises has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Tutor Perini. Tutor Perini is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hovnanian Enterprises, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
65.4% of Hovnanian Enterprises shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.0% of Tutor Perini shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.7% of Hovnanian Enterprises shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.5% of Tutor Perini shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Hovnanian Enterprises has a net margin of 7.45% compared to Hovnanian Enterprises' net margin of -2.56%. Tutor Perini's return on equity of 58.22% beat Hovnanian Enterprises' return on equity.
Hovnanian Enterprises has a beta of 2.62, meaning that its share price is 162% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tutor Perini has a beta of 1.53, meaning that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Tutor Perini received 95 more outperform votes than Hovnanian Enterprises when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.74% of users gave Tutor Perini an outperform vote while only 54.56% of users gave Hovnanian Enterprises an outperform vote.
Summary
Hovnanian Enterprises beats Tutor Perini on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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