FBIN vs. MLM, VMC, JHX, CX, EXP, WFG, SKY, ACA, CXT, and TGLS
Should you be buying Fortune Brands Innovations stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fortune Brands Innovations include Martin Marietta Materials (MLM), Vulcan Materials (VMC), James Hardie Industries (JHX), CEMEX (CX), Eagle Materials (EXP), West Fraser Timber (WFG), Skyline Champion (SKY), Arcosa (ACA), Crane NXT (CXT), and Tecnoglass (TGLS). These companies are all part of the "construction materials" industry.
Fortune Brands Innovations (NYSE:FBIN) and Martin Marietta Materials (NYSE:MLM) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, risk, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
Fortune Brands Innovations has a beta of 1.51, indicating that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Martin Marietta Materials has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Fortune Brands Innovations pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Martin Marietta Materials pays an annual dividend of $3.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Fortune Brands Innovations pays out 29.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Martin Marietta Materials pays out 9.4% 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.
Fortune Brands Innovations currently has a consensus price target of $83.20, suggesting a potential upside of 7.49%. Martin Marietta Materials has a consensus price target of $629.82, suggesting a potential upside of 25.34%. Given Martin Marietta Materials' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Martin Marietta Materials is more favorable than Fortune Brands Innovations.
Martin Marietta Materials has a net margin of 30.80% compared to Fortune Brands Innovations' net margin of 9.39%. Fortune Brands Innovations' return on equity of 22.93% beat Martin Marietta Materials' return on equity.
In the previous week, Martin Marietta Materials had 6 more articles in the media than Fortune Brands Innovations. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Martin Marietta Materials and 4 mentions for Fortune Brands Innovations. Fortune Brands Innovations' average media sentiment score of 1.41 beat Martin Marietta Materials' score of 0.94 indicating that Fortune Brands Innovations is being referred to more favorably in the media.
87.6% of Fortune Brands Innovations shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.0% of Martin Marietta Materials shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Fortune Brands Innovations shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Martin Marietta Materials shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Martin Marietta Materials received 473 more outperform votes than Fortune Brands Innovations when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.98% of users gave Martin Marietta Materials an outperform vote while only 39.58% of users gave Fortune Brands Innovations an outperform vote.
Martin Marietta Materials has higher revenue and earnings than Fortune Brands Innovations. Martin Marietta Materials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fortune Brands Innovations, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Martin Marietta Materials beats Fortune Brands Innovations on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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