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Louisiana-Pacific (LPX) Competitors

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$91.70 +0.43 (+0.47%)
Closing price 05/22/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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LPX vs. BCC, TREX, KOP, LII, NVR, EME, PHM, WSO.B, WSO, and WY

Should you be buying Louisiana-Pacific stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Louisiana-Pacific include Boise Cascade (BCC), Trex (TREX), Koppers (KOP), Lennox International (LII), NVR (NVR), EMCOR Group (EME), PulteGroup (PHM), Watsco (WSO.B), Watsco (WSO), and Weyerhaeuser (WY).

Louisiana-Pacific vs.

Louisiana-Pacific (NYSE:LPX) and Boise Cascade (NYSE:BCC) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability and earnings.

Louisiana-Pacific pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Boise Cascade pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Louisiana-Pacific pays out 19.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Boise Cascade pays out 10.5% 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. Louisiana-Pacific has increased its dividend for 7 consecutive years and Boise Cascade has increased its dividend for 6 consecutive years. Louisiana-Pacific is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

In the previous week, Boise Cascade had 5 more articles in the media than Louisiana-Pacific. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Boise Cascade and 12 mentions for Louisiana-Pacific. Louisiana-Pacific's average media sentiment score of 1.49 beat Boise Cascade's score of 1.27 indicating that Louisiana-Pacific is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Louisiana-Pacific
12 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Boise Cascade
12 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

94.7% of Louisiana-Pacific shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.2% of Boise Cascade shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Louisiana-Pacific shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Boise Cascade shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Louisiana-Pacific presently has a consensus price target of $107.38, suggesting a potential upside of 17.09%. Boise Cascade has a consensus price target of $125.00, suggesting a potential upside of 43.17%. Given Boise Cascade's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Boise Cascade is more favorable than Louisiana-Pacific.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Louisiana-Pacific
2 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.25
Boise Cascade
1 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.29

Louisiana-Pacific received 71 more outperform votes than Boise Cascade when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.54% of users gave Boise Cascade an outperform vote while only 55.83% of users gave Louisiana-Pacific an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Louisiana-PacificOutperform Votes
359
55.83%
Underperform Votes
284
44.17%
Boise CascadeOutperform Votes
288
58.54%
Underperform Votes
204
41.46%

Louisiana-Pacific has a net margin of 14.31% compared to Boise Cascade's net margin of 5.60%. Louisiana-Pacific's return on equity of 25.35% beat Boise Cascade's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Louisiana-Pacific14.31% 25.35% 16.49%
Boise Cascade 5.60%17.04%10.68%

Boise Cascade has higher revenue and earnings than Louisiana-Pacific. Boise Cascade is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Louisiana-Pacific, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Louisiana-Pacific$2.94B2.17$178M$5.7016.09
Boise Cascade$6.62B0.50$376.35M$8.0110.90

Louisiana-Pacific has a beta of 1.94, suggesting that its share price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Boise Cascade has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Louisiana-Pacific beats Boise Cascade on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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LPX vs. The Competition

MetricLouisiana-PacificLumber & wood products, except furniture IndustryConstruction SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$6.38B$4.37B$8.64B$19.30B
Dividend Yield1.22%1.12%2.05%3.83%
P/E Ratio15.6016.7816.4434.53
Price / Sales2.172.6574.7634.84
Price / Cash13.0015.0521.7617.51
Price / Book3.824.584.604.69
Net Income$178M$157.53M$553.80M$1.02B
7 Day Performance-3.83%-4.22%-2.89%-2.43%
1 Month Performance8.46%10.73%7.29%6.27%
1 Year Performance3.65%-20.12%84.61%5.78%

Louisiana-Pacific Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LPX
Louisiana-Pacific
4.0761 of 5 stars
$91.70
+0.5%
$107.38
+17.1%
+2.6%$6.38B$2.94B15.604,300Positive News
Ex-Dividend
BCC
Boise Cascade
4.9033 of 5 stars
$91.29
-0.7%
$125.00
+36.9%
-36.1%$3.44B$6.62B9.556,780News Coverage
Positive News
TREX
Trex
3.7089 of 5 stars
$60.61
-0.4%
$76.65
+26.5%
-35.0%$6.50B$1.12B27.681,640Gap Down
KOP
Koppers
4.4509 of 5 stars
$31.37
+0.5%
$64.00
+104.0%
-30.9%$627.71M$2.05B8.912,120Positive News
LII
Lennox International
3.9111 of 5 stars
$604.96
-0.1%
$583.71
-3.5%
+15.3%$21.47B$5.37B26.8413,200Positive News
NVR
NVR
4.1056 of 5 stars
$7,296.82
-1.0%
$9,023.33
+23.7%
-5.4%$21.34B$10.61B14.386,550Positive News
EME
EMCOR Group
2.7032 of 5 stars
$469.62
-0.2%
$494.50
+5.3%
+18.0%$21.02B$15.00B23.8535,500Positive News
Gap Down
PHM
PulteGroup
4.965 of 5 stars
$102.93
-1.4%
$134.69
+30.9%
-13.9%$20.63B$17.89B7.006,520Positive News
WSO.B
Watsco
N/A$498.82
+5.2%
N/A+5.3%$20.15B$7.58B37.657,280
WSO
Watsco
3.374 of 5 stars
$488.06
-0.8%
$480.83
-1.5%
-5.6%$19.72B$7.58B36.837,280
WY
Weyerhaeuser
4.2458 of 5 stars
$26.49
-0.9%
$33.75
+27.4%
-17.8%$19.21B$7.09B48.169,260Positive News

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This page (NYSE:LPX) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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