AYI vs. AAON, SSD, KBR, UFPI, EXP, ALTR, SUM, MTZ, FLR, and AZEK
Should you be buying Acuity Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Acuity Brands include AAON (AAON), Simpson Manufacturing (SSD), KBR (KBR), UFP Industries (UFPI), Eagle Materials (EXP), Altair Engineering (ALTR), Summit Materials (SUM), MasTec (MTZ), Fluor (FLR), and AZEK (AZEK). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
AAON (NASDAQ:AAON) and Acuity Brands (NYSE:AYI) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, risk and media sentiment.
AAON has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Acuity Brands has a beta of 1.47, suggesting that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.
AAON currently has a consensus target price of $51.11, indicating a potential downside of 34.81%. Acuity Brands has a consensus target price of $289.25, indicating a potential upside of 13.62%. Given AAON's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Acuity Brands is more favorable than AAON.
AAON pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Acuity Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. AAON pays out 15.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Acuity Brands pays out 5.0% 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. Acuity Brands has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
70.8% of AAON shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.2% of Acuity Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.6% of AAON shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Acuity Brands shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, AAON had 15 more articles in the media than Acuity Brands. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for AAON and 7 mentions for Acuity Brands. AAON's average media sentiment score of 1.49 beat Acuity Brands' score of 0.22 indicating that Acuity Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Acuity Brands has higher revenue and earnings than AAON. Acuity Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AAON, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AAON has a net margin of 15.20% compared to AAON's net margin of 9.81%. Acuity Brands' return on equity of 27.20% beat AAON's return on equity.
Acuity Brands received 469 more outperform votes than AAON when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.16% of users gave Acuity Brands an outperform vote while only 56.01% of users gave AAON an outperform vote.
Summary
Acuity Brands beats AAON on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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