JEC vs. KBR, FLR, ROL, WSO.B, LII, WSO, EME, PHM, MAS, and JHX
Should you be buying Jacobs Engineering Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Jacobs Engineering Group include KBR (KBR), Fluor (FLR), Rollins (ROL), Watsco (WSO.B), Lennox International (LII), Watsco (WSO), EMCOR Group (EME), PulteGroup (PHM), Masco (MAS), and James Hardie Industries (JHX). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
KBR (NYSE:KBR) and Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE:JEC) are both construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
KBR currently has a consensus target price of $73.43, indicating a potential upside of 14.05%. Given Jacobs Engineering Group's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe KBR is more favorable than Jacobs Engineering Group.
KBR received 27 more outperform votes than Jacobs Engineering Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.88% of users gave Jacobs Engineering Group an outperform vote while only 66.18% of users gave KBR an outperform vote.
Jacobs Engineering Group has a net margin of 6.66% compared to Jacobs Engineering Group's net margin of -3.81%. Jacobs Engineering Group's return on equity of 25.08% beat KBR's return on equity.
KBR pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Jacobs Engineering Group pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. KBR pays out -29.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Jacobs Engineering Group pays out 13.5% 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. KBR has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years. KBR is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Jacobs Engineering Group has higher revenue and earnings than KBR. KBR is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Jacobs Engineering Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
97.0% of KBR shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.6% of Jacobs Engineering Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of KBR shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Jacobs Engineering Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, KBR had 17 more articles in the media than Jacobs Engineering Group. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for KBR and 0 mentions for Jacobs Engineering Group. Jacobs Engineering Group's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat KBR's score of 0.00 indicating that KBR is being referred to more favorably in the media.
KBR has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Jacobs Engineering Group has a beta of 1.35, suggesting that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
KBR beats Jacobs Engineering Group on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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