LII vs. AAON, WSO, EME, WSO.B, MAS, JHX, OC, RPM, ACM, and BLD
Should you be buying Lennox International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lennox International include AAON (AAON), Watsco (WSO), EMCOR Group (EME), Watsco (WSO.B), Masco (MAS), James Hardie Industries (JHX), Owens Corning (OC), RPM International (RPM), AECOM (ACM), and TopBuild (BLD). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
AAON (NASDAQ:AAON) and Lennox International (NYSE:LII) are both construction companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
AAON pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Lennox International pays an annual dividend of $4.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. AAON pays out 15.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lennox International pays out 25.5% 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. Lennox International has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years. Lennox International is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
AAON presently has a consensus target price of $51.11, indicating a potential downside of 43.93%. Lennox International has a consensus target price of $482.31, indicating a potential upside of 1.09%. Given AAON's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Lennox International is more favorable than AAON.
AAON has a net margin of 15.20% compared to AAON's net margin of 12.38%. AAON's return on equity of 303.36% beat Lennox International's return on equity.
Lennox International received 151 more outperform votes than AAON when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.90% of users gave AAON an outperform vote while only 47.70% of users gave Lennox International an outperform vote.
70.8% of AAON shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.1% of Lennox International shares are held by institutional investors. 18.6% of AAON shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.4% of Lennox International shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Lennox International has higher revenue and earnings than AAON. Lennox International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AAON, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Lennox International had 28 more articles in the media than AAON. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Lennox International and 4 mentions for AAON. AAON's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Lennox International's score of -0.15 indicating that Lennox International is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
AAON has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lennox International has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Lennox International beats AAON on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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