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Should you be buying Gibraltar Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gibraltar Industries include Simpson Manufacturing (SSD), Armstrong World Industries (AWI), Trex (TREX), UFP Industries (UFPI), Griffon (GFF), Patrick Industries (PATK), Apogee Enterprises (APOG), American Woodmark (AMWD), Quanex Building Products (NX), and Insteel Industries (IIIN). These companies are all part of the "building products" industry.
Gibraltar Industries vs.
Gibraltar Industries (NASDAQ:ROCK) and Simpson Manufacturing (NYSE:SSD) are both construction companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation and earnings.
Simpson Manufacturing has a consensus price target of $188.50, indicating a potential upside of 21.37%. Given Simpson Manufacturing's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Simpson Manufacturing is more favorable than Gibraltar Industries.
In the previous week, Gibraltar Industries had 1 more articles in the media than Simpson Manufacturing. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Gibraltar Industries and 10 mentions for Simpson Manufacturing. Simpson Manufacturing's average media sentiment score of 1.54 beat Gibraltar Industries' score of 1.25 indicating that Simpson Manufacturing is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Simpson Manufacturing has higher revenue and earnings than Gibraltar Industries. Gibraltar Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Simpson Manufacturing, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gibraltar Industries has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Simpson Manufacturing has a beta of 1.34, meaning that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Simpson Manufacturing has a net margin of 14.44% compared to Gibraltar Industries' net margin of 10.49%. Simpson Manufacturing's return on equity of 18.00% beat Gibraltar Industries' return on equity.
98.4% of Gibraltar Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.7% of Simpson Manufacturing shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Gibraltar Industries shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Simpson Manufacturing shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Gibraltar Industries received 59 more outperform votes than Simpson Manufacturing when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.85% of users gave Gibraltar Industries an outperform vote while only 57.04% of users gave Simpson Manufacturing an outperform vote.
Summary
Simpson Manufacturing beats Gibraltar Industries on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:ROCK) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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