CX vs. MLM, VMC, EXP, WFG, ACA, CXT, USLM, JBI, HLIO, and JELD
Should you be buying CEMEX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CEMEX include Martin Marietta Materials (MLM), Vulcan Materials (VMC), Eagle Materials (EXP), West Fraser Timber (WFG), Arcosa (ACA), Crane NXT (CXT), United States Lime & Minerals (USLM), Janus International Group (JBI), Helios Technologies (HLIO), and JELD-WEN (JELD). These companies are all part of the "construction materials" industry.
Martin Marietta Materials (NYSE:MLM) and CEMEX (NYSE:CX) are both construction companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, risk, community ranking, profitability and dividends.
Martin Marietta Materials has a net margin of 31.35% compared to Martin Marietta Materials' net margin of 1.28%. CEMEX's return on equity of 14.74% beat Martin Marietta Materials' return on equity.
Martin Marietta Materials has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CEMEX has a beta of 1.47, indicating that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Martin Marietta Materials pays an annual dividend of $2.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. CEMEX pays an annual dividend of $0.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Martin Marietta Materials pays out 8.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CEMEX pays out 14.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Martin Marietta Materials is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
95.0% of Martin Marietta Materials shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.0% of CEMEX shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Martin Marietta Materials shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of CEMEX shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, CEMEX had 6 more articles in the media than Martin Marietta Materials. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for CEMEX and 9 mentions for Martin Marietta Materials. CEMEX's average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat Martin Marietta Materials' score of 0.15 indicating that Martin Marietta Materials is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Martin Marietta Materials has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CEMEX. Martin Marietta Materials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CEMEX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Martin Marietta Materials currently has a consensus target price of $617.33, suggesting a potential upside of 9.14%. CEMEX has a consensus target price of $9.24, suggesting a potential upside of 43.97%. Given Martin Marietta Materials' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe CEMEX is more favorable than Martin Marietta Materials.
CEMEX received 53 more outperform votes than Martin Marietta Materials when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.99% of users gave Martin Marietta Materials an outperform vote while only 63.98% of users gave CEMEX an outperform vote.
Summary
Martin Marietta Materials beats CEMEX on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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