ROCK vs. GVA, PGTI, FTDR, PATK, PRIM, ROAD, ABM, HLMN, CCS, and WGO
Should you be buying Gibraltar Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gibraltar Industries include Granite Construction (GVA), PGT Innovations (PGTI), Frontdoor (FTDR), Patrick Industries (PATK), Primoris Services (PRIM), Construction Partners (ROAD), ABM Industries (ABM), Hillman Solutions (HLMN), Century Communities (CCS), and Winnebago Industries (WGO). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Gibraltar Industries (NASDAQ:ROCK) and Granite Construction (NYSE:GVA) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability and media sentiment.
Granite Construction received 93 more outperform votes than Gibraltar Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.25% of users gave Gibraltar Industries an outperform vote while only 57.68% of users gave Granite Construction an outperform vote.
Granite Construction has a consensus price target of $64.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.03%. Given Granite Construction's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Granite Construction is more favorable than Gibraltar Industries.
Gibraltar Industries has a net margin of 8.02% compared to Granite Construction's net margin of 1.24%. Gibraltar Industries' return on equity of 14.50% beat Granite Construction's return on equity.
Gibraltar Industries has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Granite Construction has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Gibraltar Industries had 2 more articles in the media than Granite Construction. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Gibraltar Industries and 4 mentions for Granite Construction. Gibraltar Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.29 beat Granite Construction's score of 0.06 indicating that Gibraltar Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
98.4% of Gibraltar Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Gibraltar Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Granite Construction shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Gibraltar Industries has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Granite Construction. Gibraltar Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Granite Construction, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Gibraltar Industries beats Granite Construction on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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