USG vs. ACA, TPH, DY, DFH, MHO, SKY, PCH, STRL, RYN, and KNF
Should you be buying USG stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of USG include Arcosa (ACA), Tri Pointe Homes (TPH), Dycom Industries (DY), Dream Finders Homes (DFH), M/I Homes (MHO), Skyline Champion (SKY), PotlatchDeltic (PCH), Sterling Infrastructure (STRL), Rayonier (RYN), and Knife River (KNF). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
USG (NYSE:USG) and Arcosa (NYSE:ACA) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, profitability, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings and media sentiment.
USG has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Arcosa has a beta of 0.66, meaning that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
80.7% of USG shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.7% of Arcosa shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of USG shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Arcosa shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
USG has higher revenue and earnings than Arcosa. USG is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Arcosa, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, USG had 1 more articles in the media than Arcosa. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for USG and 2 mentions for Arcosa. Arcosa's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat USG's score of 0.00 indicating that Arcosa is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Arcosa has a consensus price target of $90.00, indicating a potential upside of 17.80%. Given Arcosa's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Arcosa is more favorable than USG.
USG received 274 more outperform votes than Arcosa when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.09% of users gave USG an outperform vote while only 53.90% of users gave Arcosa an outperform vote.
Arcosa has a net margin of 6.90% compared to USG's net margin of 5.88%. USG's return on equity of 11.65% beat Arcosa's return on equity.
Summary
Arcosa beats USG on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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