TPC vs. AGX, LOMA, BZH, NOA, HOV, CINT, GLDD, BXC, LMB, and LYTS
Should you be buying Tutor Perini stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tutor Perini include Argan (AGX), Loma Negra Compañía Industrial Argentina Sociedad Anónima (LOMA), Beazer Homes USA (BZH), North American Construction Group (NOA), Hovnanian Enterprises (HOV), CI&T (CINT), Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), BlueLinx (BXC), Limbach (LMB), and LSI Industries (LYTS). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Argan (NYSE:AGX) and Tutor Perini (NYSE:TPC) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk and profitability.
Argan has a net margin of 5.64% compared to Argan's net margin of -2.56%. Tutor Perini's return on equity of 11.37% beat Argan's return on equity.
Argan has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Tutor Perini. Tutor Perini is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Argan, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Argan presently has a consensus target price of $70.00, suggesting a potential upside of 12.94%. Tutor Perini has a consensus target price of $11.00, suggesting a potential downside of 38.13%. Given Tutor Perini's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Argan is more favorable than Tutor Perini.
79.4% of Argan shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.0% of Tutor Perini shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.5% of Argan shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 19.5% of Tutor Perini shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Tutor Perini received 44 more outperform votes than Argan when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.32% of users gave Argan an outperform vote while only 64.74% of users gave Tutor Perini an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Tutor Perini had 9 more articles in the media than Argan. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Tutor Perini and 9 mentions for Argan. Argan's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Tutor Perini's score of 0.48 indicating that Tutor Perini is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Argan has a beta of 0.49, meaning that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tutor Perini has a beta of 1.62, meaning that its stock price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Argan beats Tutor Perini on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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