STRL vs. GVA, GLDD, ORN, FLR, KBR, ROAD, PCH, MHO, CVCO, and DFH
Should you be buying Sterling Infrastructure stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sterling Infrastructure include Granite Construction (GVA), Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), Orion Group (ORN), Fluor (FLR), KBR (KBR), Construction Partners (ROAD), PotlatchDeltic (PCH), M/I Homes (MHO), Cavco Industries (CVCO), and Dream Finders Homes (DFH). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Granite Construction (NYSE:GVA) and Sterling Infrastructure (NASDAQ:STRL) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking and profitability.
Sterling Infrastructure has a net margin of 7.03% compared to Sterling Infrastructure's net margin of 1.24%. Granite Construction's return on equity of 24.75% beat Sterling Infrastructure's return on equity.
Granite Construction currently has a consensus target price of $57.00, indicating a potential downside of 0.45%. Sterling Infrastructure has a consensus target price of $115.00, indicating a potential upside of 14.26%. Given Granite Construction's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Sterling Infrastructure is more favorable than Granite Construction.
In the previous week, Granite Construction had 6 more articles in the media than Sterling Infrastructure. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Granite Construction and 8 mentions for Sterling Infrastructure. Granite Construction's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Sterling Infrastructure's score of 0.28 indicating that Sterling Infrastructure is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Granite Construction has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sterling Infrastructure has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
81.0% of Sterling Infrastructure shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Granite Construction shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of Sterling Infrastructure shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Granite Construction received 99 more outperform votes than Sterling Infrastructure when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.59% of users gave Granite Construction an outperform vote while only 56.39% of users gave Sterling Infrastructure an outperform vote.
Sterling Infrastructure has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Granite Construction. Sterling Infrastructure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Granite Construction, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Sterling Infrastructure beats Granite Construction on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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