WSO.B vs. EME, LII, MAS, JHX, OC, RPM, ROL, WY, BLD, and ACM
Should you be buying Watsco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Watsco include EMCOR Group (EME), Lennox International (LII), Masco (MAS), James Hardie Industries (JHX), Owens Corning (OC), RPM International (RPM), Rollins (ROL), Weyerhaeuser (WY), TopBuild (BLD), and AECOM (ACM). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Watsco (NYSE:WSO.B) and EMCOR Group (NYSE:EME) are both large-cap construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, dividends and institutional ownership.
EMCOR Group has higher revenue and earnings than Watsco. EMCOR Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Watsco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
EMCOR Group has a consensus price target of $375.00, indicating a potential downside of 1.39%. Given EMCOR Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe EMCOR Group is more favorable than Watsco.
Watsco pays an annual dividend of $10.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. EMCOR Group pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Watsco pays out 83.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. EMCOR Group pays out 6.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Watsco has a net margin of 7.03% compared to EMCOR Group's net margin of 5.48%. EMCOR Group's return on equity of 30.38% beat Watsco's return on equity.
EMCOR Group received 178 more outperform votes than Watsco when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.68% of users gave EMCOR Group an outperform vote while only 61.11% of users gave Watsco an outperform vote.
Watsco has a beta of 0.6, meaning that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EMCOR Group has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
0.1% of Watsco shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.6% of EMCOR Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.8% of Watsco shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of EMCOR Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, EMCOR Group had 5 more articles in the media than Watsco. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for EMCOR Group and 3 mentions for Watsco. EMCOR Group's average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Watsco's score of 0.56 indicating that EMCOR Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
EMCOR Group beats Watsco on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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