OC vs. RPM, JHX, EME, MAS, WSO, ACM, BLD, TOL, WMS, and WSO.B
Should you be buying Owens Corning stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Owens Corning include RPM International (RPM), James Hardie Industries (JHX), EMCOR Group (EME), Masco (MAS), Watsco (WSO), AECOM (ACM), TopBuild (BLD), Toll Brothers (TOL), Advanced Drainage Systems (WMS), and Watsco (WSO.B). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
RPM International (NYSE:RPM) and Owens Corning (NYSE:OC) are both large-cap construction companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, dividends and earnings.
RPM International has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Owens Corning has a beta of 1.47, suggesting that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.
RPM International pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Owens Corning pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. RPM International pays out 42.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Owens Corning pays out 19.4% 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. RPM International has increased its dividend for 50 consecutive years and Owens Corning has increased its dividend for 9 consecutive years. RPM International is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
81.0% of RPM International shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.4% of Owens Corning shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of RPM International shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Owens Corning shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Owens Corning has a net margin of 11.53% compared to Owens Corning's net margin of 7.61%. Owens Corning's return on equity of 26.72% beat RPM International's return on equity.
RPM International presently has a consensus target price of $115.11, indicating a potential upside of 6.01%. Owens Corning has a consensus target price of $168.21, indicating a potential downside of 2.02%. Given Owens Corning's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe RPM International is more favorable than Owens Corning.
Owens Corning has higher revenue and earnings than RPM International. Owens Corning is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RPM International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Owens Corning received 297 more outperform votes than RPM International when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.42% of users gave Owens Corning an outperform vote while only 59.43% of users gave RPM International an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Owens Corning had 33 more articles in the media than RPM International. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for Owens Corning and 2 mentions for RPM International. RPM International's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Owens Corning's score of 0.31 indicating that Owens Corning is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Owens Corning beats RPM International on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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