GVA vs. HTZ, PGTI, AIR, TGH, TNC, GOGL, SXI, HURN, CRS, and NPO
Should you be buying Granite Construction stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Granite Construction include Hertz Global (HTZ), PGT Innovations (PGTI), AAR (AIR), Textainer Group (TGH), Tennant (TNC), Golden Ocean Group (GOGL), Standex International (SXI), Huron Consulting Group (HURN), Carpenter Technology (CRS), and Enpro (NPO).
Hertz Global (NYSE:HTZ) and Granite Construction (NYSE:GVA) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
99.2% of Hertz Global shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Hertz Global shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Granite Construction shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Granite Construction has a consensus target price of $64.00, indicating a potential upside of 18.23%. Given Hertz Global's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Granite Construction is more favorable than Hertz Global.
Granite Construction has a net margin of 1.24% compared to Granite Construction's net margin of 0.00%. Hertz Global's return on equity of 14.15% beat Granite Construction's return on equity.
Hertz Global has a beta of 2, indicating that its share price is 100% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Granite Construction has a beta of 1.45, indicating that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Granite Construction had 2 more articles in the media than Hertz Global. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Granite Construction and 8 mentions for Hertz Global. Hertz Global's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Granite Construction's score of -0.18 indicating that Granite Construction is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Hertz Global has higher revenue and earnings than Granite Construction. Hertz Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Granite Construction, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Granite Construction received 368 more outperform votes than Hertz Global when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.68% of users gave Granite Construction an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Hertz Global an outperform vote.
Summary
Granite Construction beats Hertz Global on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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