CX vs. EXP, LOMA, CPAC, CRH, LEN, PWR, OTIS, MLM, HWM, and VMC
Should you be buying CEMEX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CEMEX include Eagle Materials (EXP), Loma Negra Compañía Industrial Argentina Sociedad Anónima (LOMA), Cementos Pacasmayo S.A.A. (CPAC), CRH (CRH), Lennar (LEN), Quanta Services (PWR), Otis Worldwide (OTIS), Martin Marietta Materials (MLM), Howmet Aerospace (HWM), and Vulcan Materials (VMC). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Eagle Materials (NYSE:EXP) and CEMEX (NYSE:CX) are both construction companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, community ranking and institutional ownership.
CEMEX received 98 more outperform votes than Eagle Materials when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.41% of users gave Eagle Materials an outperform vote while only 63.81% of users gave CEMEX an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Eagle Materials had 17 more articles in the media than CEMEX. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Eagle Materials and 7 mentions for CEMEX. Eagle Materials' average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat CEMEX's score of 0.07 indicating that CEMEX is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Eagle Materials pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. CEMEX pays an annual dividend of $0.0990 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Eagle Materials pays out 7.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CEMEX pays out 70.7% 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.
Eagle Materials has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CEMEX. Eagle Materials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CEMEX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Eagle Materials has a beta of 1.35, suggesting that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CEMEX has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Eagle Materials currently has a consensus price target of $279.67, indicating a potential upside of 20.35%. CEMEX has a consensus price target of $9.46, indicating a potential upside of 24.76%. Given Eagle Materials' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe CEMEX is more favorable than Eagle Materials.
Eagle Materials has a net margin of 21.14% compared to Eagle Materials' net margin of 1.28%. CEMEX's return on equity of 37.31% beat Eagle Materials' return on equity.
96.1% of Eagle Materials shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.0% of CEMEX shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Eagle Materials shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of CEMEX 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.
Summary
Eagle Materials beats CEMEX on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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