CRH vs. DHI, LEN, PWR, OTIS, HWM, SHW, PHM, NVR, WY, and ROL
Should you be buying CRH stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CRH include D.R. Horton (DHI), Lennar (LEN), Quanta Services (PWR), Otis Worldwide (OTIS), Howmet Aerospace (HWM), Sherwin-Williams (SHW), PulteGroup (PHM), NVR (NVR), Weyerhaeuser (WY), and Rollins (ROL). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
D.R. Horton (NYSE:DHI) and CRH (NYSE:CRH) are both large-cap construction companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
D.R. Horton received 167 more outperform votes than CRH when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.06% of users gave D.R. Horton an outperform vote while only 56.28% of users gave CRH an outperform vote.
D.R. Horton currently has a consensus target price of $157.82, suggesting a potential upside of 8.79%. CRH has a consensus target price of $83.28, suggesting a potential upside of 2.69%. Given CRH's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe D.R. Horton is more favorable than CRH.
D.R. Horton has a net margin of 13.39% compared to D.R. Horton's net margin of 0.00%. CRH's return on equity of 21.32% beat D.R. Horton's return on equity.
90.6% of D.R. Horton shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.5% of CRH shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of D.R. Horton shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
D.R. Horton pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. CRH pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. D.R. Horton pays out 8.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. D.R. Horton has increased its dividend for 9 consecutive years.
In the previous week, D.R. Horton had 10 more articles in the media than CRH. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for D.R. Horton and 8 mentions for CRH. D.R. Horton's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat CRH's score of 0.84 indicating that CRH is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
D.R. Horton has higher revenue and earnings than CRH.
D.R. Horton has a beta of 1.66, suggesting that its stock price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CRH has a beta of 1.29, suggesting that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
D.R. Horton beats CRH on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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