AAON vs. LII, SSD, UFPI, ALTR, SUM, MTZ, FLR, AZEK, CHX, and AYI
Should you be buying AAON stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AAON include Lennox International (LII), Simpson Manufacturing (SSD), UFP Industries (UFPI), Altair Engineering (ALTR), Summit Materials (SUM), MasTec (MTZ), Fluor (FLR), AZEK (AZEK), ChampionX (CHX), and Acuity Brands (AYI). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
AAON (NASDAQ:AAON) and Lennox International (NYSE:LII) are both construction companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, profitability and community ranking.
AAON currently has a consensus target price of $51.11, indicating a potential downside of 43.15%. Lennox International has a consensus target price of $482.31, indicating a potential upside of 1.40%. Given Lennox International's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Lennox International is more favorable than AAON.
Lennox International received 151 more outperform votes than AAON when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.90% of users gave AAON an outperform vote while only 47.70% of users gave Lennox International an outperform vote.
70.8% of AAON shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.1% of Lennox International shares are held by institutional investors. 18.6% of AAON shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.4% of Lennox International shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
AAON has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lennox International has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lennox International has higher revenue and earnings than AAON. Lennox International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AAON, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Lennox International had 22 more articles in the media than AAON. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Lennox International and 4 mentions for AAON. Lennox International's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat AAON's score of 0.77 indicating that Lennox International is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
AAON pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Lennox International pays an annual dividend of $4.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. AAON pays out 15.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lennox International pays out 26.6% 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.
AAON has a net margin of 15.20% compared to Lennox International's net margin of 11.85%. Lennox International's return on equity of 671.77% beat AAON's return on equity.
Summary
Lennox International beats AAON on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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