Knife River (KNF) Competitors

Summit Materials (NYSE:SUM) and Knife River (NYSE:KNF) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.

Do analysts rate SUM or KNF?

Summit Materials currently has a consensus price target of $46.09, suggesting a potential upside of 18.49%. Knife River has a consensus price target of $76.20, suggesting a potential downside of 2.55%. Given Knife River's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Summit Materials is more favorable than Knife River.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Summit Materials	0 Sell rating(s)	5 Hold rating(s)	7 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.58
Knife River	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.83

Is SUM or KNF more profitable?

Summit Materials has a net margin of 10.91% compared to Summit Materials' net margin of 6.46%. Summit Materials' return on equity of 15.98% beat Knife River's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Summit Materials	10.91%	8.73%	4.18%
Knife River	6.46%	15.98%	7.14%

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer SUM or KNF?

Summit Materials received 404 more outperform votes than Knife River when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave Knife River an outperform vote while only 62.50% of users gave Summit Materials an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Summit Materials	Outperform Votes 410 62.50%	Underperform Votes 246 37.50%
Knife River	Outperform Votes 6 66.67%	Underperform Votes 3 33.33%

Does the media favor SUM or KNF?

In the previous week, Summit Materials had 16 more articles in the media than Knife River. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Summit Materials and 5 mentions for Knife River. Summit Materials' average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Knife River's score of 0.46 indicating that Knife River is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Summit Materials	8 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	7 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Knife River	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, SUM or KNF?

Summit Materials has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Knife River. Knife River is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Summit Materials, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Summit Materials	$2.62B	2.59	$289.63M	$2.38	16.34
Knife River	$2.83B	1.56	$182.87M	-$512.56	-0.15

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of SUM or KNF?

80.1% of Knife River shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Summit Materials shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Knife River shares are owned 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.

Summary

Summit Materials beats Knife River on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.