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IESC vs. J, APG, BLD, TMHC, ROAD, IBP, ECG, GRBK, BBU, and DFH

Should you be buying IES stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IES include Jacobs Solutions (J), APi Group (APG), TopBuild (BLD), Taylor Morrison Home (TMHC), Construction Partners (ROAD), Installed Building Products (IBP), Everus Construction Group (ECG), Green Brick Partners (GRBK), Brookfield Business Partners (BBU), and Dream Finders Homes (DFH). These companies are all part of the "construction" industry.

IES vs. Its Competitors

IES (NASDAQ:IESC) and Jacobs Solutions (NYSE:J) are both construction companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, dividends, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership and media sentiment.

IES has a beta of 1.63, suggesting that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Jacobs Solutions has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Jacobs Solutions has a consensus price target of $150.86, indicating a potential upside of 14.40%. Given Jacobs Solutions' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Jacobs Solutions is more favorable than IES.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
IES
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Jacobs Solutions
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.63

86.6% of IES shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.7% of Jacobs Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. 56.8% of IES shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Jacobs Solutions shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Jacobs Solutions had 3 more articles in the media than IES. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Jacobs Solutions and 6 mentions for IES. Jacobs Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat IES's score of 0.63 indicating that Jacobs Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
IES
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Jacobs Solutions
6 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Jacobs Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than IES. IES is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Jacobs Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
IES$2.88B2.05$201.98M$11.9524.87
Jacobs Solutions$11.69B1.36$821.09M$3.6336.33

IES has a net margin of 7.76% compared to Jacobs Solutions' net margin of 3.53%. IES's return on equity of 36.49% beat Jacobs Solutions' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
IES7.76% 36.49% 18.41%
Jacobs Solutions 3.53%15.67%6.11%

Summary

IES and Jacobs Solutions tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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IESC vs. The Competition

MetricIESELEC MISC SERVICES IndustryComputer SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$5.90B$10.26B$27.31B$8.94B
Dividend YieldN/A1.15%2.94%4.13%
P/E Ratio24.8726.2436.0119.90
Price / Sales2.051.752,034.90165.00
Price / Cash25.3020.7737.9957.06
Price / Book9.724.327.055.38
Net Income$201.98M$316.08M$762.35M$248.50M
7 Day Performance5.64%3.56%3.11%2.99%
1 Month Performance12.53%14.60%6.51%6.03%
1 Year Performance119.16%24.86%52,212.27%20.40%

IES Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
IESC
IES
1.5368 of 5 stars
$297.25
+2.7%
N/A+113.0%$5.90B$2.88B24.878,080News Coverage
J
Jacobs Solutions
3.7039 of 5 stars
$128.25
+0.7%
$150.86
+17.6%
-4.1%$15.41B$11.69B35.3345,000Positive News
APG
APi Group
2.7958 of 5 stars
$50.75
-0.9%
$50.57
-0.3%
+36.8%$14.18B$7.02B27.2529,000High Trading Volume
BLD
TopBuild
3.4699 of 5 stars
$325.33
+2.9%
$380.22
+16.9%
-9.5%$9.03B$5.33B15.1513,984Positive News
TMHC
Taylor Morrison Home
2.8388 of 5 stars
$60.90
+3.7%
$76.88
+26.2%
+18.4%$6.11B$8.17B7.083,000News Coverage
ROAD
Construction Partners
3.3056 of 5 stars
$107.10
+4.7%
$91.00
-15.0%
+95.2%$6.00B$1.82B91.544,920Positive News
IBP
Installed Building Products
3.3478 of 5 stars
$180.02
+5.7%
$212.45
+18.0%
-3.2%$4.97B$2.94B20.5310,800
ECG
Everus Construction Group
1.2798 of 5 stars
$60.79
+2.7%
$73.00
+20.1%
N/A$3.10B$2.85B0.008,700Positive News
GRBK
Green Brick Partners
1.4468 of 5 stars
$63.72
+4.9%
$74.00
+16.1%
+17.0%$2.80B$2.15B8.28550Trending News
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BBU
Brookfield Business Partners
3.1771 of 5 stars
$25.98
+2.7%
$31.60
+21.6%
+39.7%$2.26B$40.62B0.0072,000
DFH
Dream Finders Homes
0.9744 of 5 stars
$24.05
+7.7%
$29.00
+20.6%
+7.7%$2.25B$4.61B7.861,210Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:IESC) was last updated on 7/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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