BLD vs. AMRC, BBU, AGX, LMB, BBCP, MTRX, SMXT, WLGS, CSCW, and DHI
Should you be buying TopBuild stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TopBuild include Ameresco (AMRC), Brookfield Business Partners (BBU), Argan (AGX), Limbach (LMB), Concrete Pumping (BBCP), Matrix Service (MTRX), SolarMax Technology (SMXT), WANG & LEE GROUP (WLGS), Color Star Technology (CSCW), and D.R. Horton (DHI).
Ameresco (NYSE:AMRC) and TopBuild (NYSE:BLD) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, risk and dividends.
Ameresco has a beta of 1.78, indicating that its share price is 78% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TopBuild has a beta of 1.76, indicating that its share price is 76% more volatile than the S&P 500.
TopBuild has a net margin of 12.11% compared to TopBuild's net margin of 4.17%. Ameresco's return on equity of 25.87% beat TopBuild's return on equity.
99.2% of Ameresco shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.7% of TopBuild shares are held by institutional investors. 42.0% of Ameresco shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of TopBuild shares are held 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.
TopBuild has higher revenue and earnings than Ameresco. TopBuild is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ameresco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
TopBuild received 56 more outperform votes than Ameresco when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.21% of users gave TopBuild an outperform vote while only 68.86% of users gave Ameresco an outperform vote.
Ameresco currently has a consensus target price of $40.85, suggesting a potential upside of 32.23%. TopBuild has a consensus target price of $461.89, suggesting a potential downside of 0.99%. Given TopBuild's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Ameresco is more favorable than TopBuild.
In the previous week, Ameresco had 3 more articles in the media than TopBuild. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Ameresco and 5 mentions for TopBuild. Ameresco's average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat TopBuild's score of 0.70 indicating that TopBuild is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
TopBuild beats Ameresco on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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