ACA vs. DY, GTES, RYN, KNF, SKY, STRL, TPH, VMI, AWI, and MHO
Should you be buying Arcosa stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Arcosa include Dycom Industries (DY), Gates Industrial (GTES), Rayonier (RYN), Knife River (KNF), Skyline Champion (SKY), Sterling Infrastructure (STRL), Tri Pointe Homes (TPH), Valmont Industries (VMI), Armstrong World Industries (AWI), and M/I Homes (MHO).
Dycom Industries (NYSE:DY) and Arcosa (NYSE:ACA) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation and community ranking.
98.3% of Dycom Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.7% of Arcosa shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.3% of Dycom Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Arcosa shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Arcosa had 2 more articles in the media than Dycom Industries. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Arcosa and 14 mentions for Dycom Industries. Arcosa's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Dycom Industries' score of 0.80 indicating that Dycom Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Arcosa has a net margin of 6.05% compared to Arcosa's net margin of 5.24%. Arcosa's return on equity of 22.06% beat Dycom Industries' return on equity.
Dycom Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Arcosa. Dycom Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Arcosa, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Dycom Industries has a beta of 1.37, meaning that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Arcosa has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Dycom Industries received 573 more outperform votes than Arcosa when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.25% of users gave Dycom Industries an outperform vote while only 53.90% of users gave Arcosa an outperform vote.
Dycom Industries currently has a consensus price target of $135.50, suggesting a potential downside of 8.03%. Arcosa has a consensus price target of $90.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2.45%. Given Dycom Industries' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Arcosa is more favorable than Dycom Industries.
Summary
Dycom Industries beats Arcosa on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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