NX vs. VSEC, ASPN, BXC, HOV, BZH, LOMA, AGX, TPC, JELD, and NOA
Should you be buying Quanex Building Products stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Quanex Building Products include VSE (VSEC), Aspen Aerogels (ASPN), BlueLinx (BXC), Hovnanian Enterprises (HOV), Beazer Homes USA (BZH), Loma Negra Compañía Industrial Argentina Sociedad Anónima (LOMA), Argan (AGX), Tutor Perini (TPC), JELD-WEN (JELD), and North American Construction Group (NOA). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Quanex Building Products (NYSE:NX) and VSE (NASDAQ:VSEC) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk and profitability.
97.5% of Quanex Building Products shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.5% of VSE shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of Quanex Building Products shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.6% of VSE shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Quanex Building Products had 9 more articles in the media than VSE. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Quanex Building Products and 5 mentions for VSE. VSE's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Quanex Building Products' score of 0.61 indicating that VSE is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Quanex Building Products has a net margin of 7.84% compared to VSE's net margin of 4.55%. Quanex Building Products' return on equity of 17.11% beat VSE's return on equity.
Quanex Building Products pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. VSE pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Quanex Building Products pays out 12.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. VSE pays out 16.7% 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. Quanex Building Products is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Quanex Building Products presently has a consensus target price of $38.00, suggesting a potential upside of 14.39%. VSE has a consensus target price of $78.25, suggesting a potential upside of 0.23%. Given Quanex Building Products' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Quanex Building Products is more favorable than VSE.
Quanex Building Products has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, VSE has a beta of 1.67, meaning that its stock price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Quanex Building Products received 154 more outperform votes than VSE when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.47% of users gave Quanex Building Products an outperform vote while only 58.98% of users gave VSE an outperform vote.
Quanex Building Products has higher revenue and earnings than VSE. Quanex Building Products is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than VSE, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Quanex Building Products beats VSE on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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