SKY vs. CVCO, RYN, DY, GTES, ACA, KNF, STRL, AWI, TPH, and MHO
Should you be buying Skyline Champion stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Skyline Champion include Cavco Industries (CVCO), Rayonier (RYN), Dycom Industries (DY), Gates Industrial (GTES), Arcosa (ACA), Knife River (KNF), Sterling Infrastructure (STRL), Armstrong World Industries (AWI), Tri Pointe Homes (TPH), and M/I Homes (MHO). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Cavco Industries (NASDAQ:CVCO) and Skyline Champion (NYSE:SKY) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and institutional ownership.
Cavco Industries has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Skyline Champion has a beta of 1.54, suggesting that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
95.6% of Cavco Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Cavco Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.0% of Skyline Champion shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Skyline Champion had 13 more articles in the media than Cavco Industries. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Skyline Champion and 18 mentions for Cavco Industries. Cavco Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Skyline Champion's score of 0.47 indicating that Skyline Champion is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cavco Industries received 183 more outperform votes than Skyline Champion when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.11% of users gave Cavco Industries an outperform vote while only 33.77% of users gave Skyline Champion an outperform vote.
Cavco Industries has a net margin of 8.79% compared to Cavco Industries' net margin of 7.24%. Skyline Champion's return on equity of 15.52% beat Cavco Industries' return on equity.
Cavco Industries currently has a consensus price target of $425.00, indicating a potential upside of 20.92%. Skyline Champion has a consensus price target of $71.00, indicating a potential downside of 1.03%. Given Skyline Champion's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Cavco Industries is more favorable than Skyline Champion.
Cavco Industries has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Skyline Champion. Cavco Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Skyline Champion, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Cavco Industries beats Skyline Champion on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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