CRH vs. DHI, URI, LEN, OTIS, MLM, PWR, VMC, SHW, HWM, and NVR
Should you be buying CRH stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CRH include D.R. Horton (DHI), United Rentals (URI), Lennar (LEN), Otis Worldwide (OTIS), Martin Marietta Materials (MLM), Quanta Services (PWR), Vulcan Materials (VMC), Sherwin-Williams (SHW), Howmet Aerospace (HWM), and NVR (NVR). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
CRH (NYSE:CRH) and D.R. Horton (NYSE:DHI) are both large-cap construction companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends and risk.
D.R. Horton received 168 more outperform votes than CRH when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.00% of users gave D.R. Horton an outperform vote while only 56.07% of users gave CRH an outperform vote.
CRH has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, D.R. Horton has a beta of 1.64, meaning that its share price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CRH currently has a consensus target price of $79.31, indicating a potential upside of 0.59%. D.R. Horton has a consensus target price of $158.06, indicating a potential upside of 8.28%. Given D.R. Horton's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe D.R. Horton is more favorable than CRH.
62.5% of CRH shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.6% of D.R. Horton shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of D.R. Horton shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
CRH pays an annual dividend of $1.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. D.R. Horton pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. D.R. Horton pays out 8.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, D.R. Horton had 15 more articles in the media than CRH. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for D.R. Horton and 7 mentions for CRH. D.R. Horton's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat CRH's score of 0.40 indicating that D.R. Horton 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 net margin of 13.39% compared to CRH's net margin of 0.00%. D.R. Horton's return on equity of 21.32% beat CRH's return on equity.
Summary
D.R. Horton beats CRH on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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