J vs. FER, LEN.B, APG, BLD, TMHC, ROAD, IESC, IBP, GRBK, and ECG
Should you be buying Jacobs Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Jacobs Solutions include Ferrovial (FER), Lennar (LEN.B), APi Group (APG), TopBuild (BLD), Taylor Morrison Home (TMHC), Construction Partners (ROAD), IES (IESC), Installed Building Products (IBP), Green Brick Partners (GRBK), and Everus (ECG). These companies are all part of the "construction" industry.
Jacobs Solutions vs.
Ferrovial (NASDAQ:FER) and Jacobs Solutions (NYSE:J) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Jacobs Solutions has a consensus price target of $150.86, suggesting a potential upside of 18.45%. Given Jacobs Solutions' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Jacobs Solutions is more favorable than Ferrovial.
Ferrovial pays an annual dividend of $0.83 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Jacobs Solutions pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Jacobs Solutions pays out 35.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Jacobs Solutions has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years.
22.3% of Ferrovial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.7% of Jacobs Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Jacobs Solutions shares are held by 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.
Jacobs Solutions received 101 more outperform votes than Ferrovial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.10% of users gave Jacobs Solutions an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Ferrovial an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Jacobs Solutions had 7 more articles in the media than Ferrovial. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Jacobs Solutions and 13 mentions for Ferrovial. Jacobs Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.52 beat Ferrovial's score of 1.09 indicating that Jacobs Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Jacobs Solutions has a net margin of 4.28% compared to Ferrovial's net margin of 0.00%. Jacobs Solutions' return on equity of 14.87% beat Ferrovial's return on equity.
Jacobs Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than Ferrovial.
Summary
Jacobs Solutions beats Ferrovial on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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