JEC vs. KBR, FLR, LII, WSO.B, WSO, MAS, EME, JHX, WY, and PHM
Should you be buying Jacobs Engineering Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Jacobs Engineering Group include KBR (KBR), Fluor (FLR), Lennox International (LII), Watsco (WSO.B), Watsco (WSO), Masco (MAS), EMCOR Group (EME), James Hardie Industries (JHX), Weyerhaeuser (WY), and PulteGroup (PHM). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE:JEC) and KBR (NYSE:KBR) are both construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk and community ranking.
Jacobs Engineering Group has higher revenue and earnings than KBR. KBR is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Jacobs Engineering Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
KBR has a consensus target price of $73.43, suggesting a potential upside of 12.45%. Given KBR's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe KBR is more favorable than Jacobs Engineering Group.
Jacobs Engineering Group pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. KBR pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Jacobs Engineering Group pays out 13.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. KBR pays out -29.3% 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. KBR is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Jacobs Engineering Group has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KBR has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
KBR received 27 more outperform votes than Jacobs Engineering Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.88% of users gave Jacobs Engineering Group an outperform vote while only 66.18% of users gave KBR an outperform vote.
90.6% of Jacobs Engineering Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of KBR shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Jacobs Engineering Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of KBR shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, KBR had 15 more articles in the media than Jacobs Engineering Group. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for KBR and 0 mentions for Jacobs Engineering Group. KBR's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Jacobs Engineering Group's score of 0.00 indicating that KBR is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Jacobs Engineering Group has a net margin of 6.66% compared to KBR's net margin of -3.81%. KBR's return on equity of 25.08% beat Jacobs Engineering Group's return on equity.
Summary
KBR beats Jacobs Engineering Group on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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