AYI vs. ALTR, BLD, TREX, CHX, FIX, TOL, EXP, WMS, AAON, and UFPI
Should you be buying Acuity Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Acuity Brands include Altair Engineering (ALTR), TopBuild (BLD), Trex (TREX), ChampionX (CHX), Comfort Systems USA (FIX), Toll Brothers (TOL), Eagle Materials (EXP), Advanced Drainage Systems (WMS), AAON (AAON), and UFP Industries (UFPI). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Acuity Brands vs.
Acuity Brands (NYSE:AYI) and Altair Engineering (NASDAQ:ALTR) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, earnings and profitability.
Acuity Brands has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Altair Engineering has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Altair Engineering had 2 more articles in the media than Acuity Brands. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Altair Engineering and 4 mentions for Acuity Brands. Acuity Brands' average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Altair Engineering's score of 0.59 indicating that Acuity Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.
93.8% of Acuity Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.7% of Altair Engineering shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Acuity Brands shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 22.7% of Altair Engineering shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Acuity Brands currently has a consensus target price of $200.00, indicating a potential upside of 18.46%. Altair Engineering has a consensus target price of $64.33, indicating a potential downside of 6.57%. Given Acuity Brands' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Acuity Brands is more favorable than Altair Engineering.
Acuity Brands received 129 more outperform votes than Altair Engineering when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.39% of users gave Acuity Brands an outperform vote while only 58.82% of users gave Altair Engineering an outperform vote.
Acuity Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Altair Engineering. Altair Engineering is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Acuity Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Acuity Brands has a net margin of 9.11% compared to Altair Engineering's net margin of -7.59%. Acuity Brands' return on equity of 21.40% beat Altair Engineering's return on equity.
Summary
Acuity Brands beats Altair Engineering on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding AYI and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE 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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