OTIS vs. LEN, URI, DHI, PWR, VMC, CRH, MLM, WY, NVR, and HWM
Should you be buying Otis Worldwide stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Otis Worldwide include Lennar (LEN), United Rentals (URI), D.R. Horton (DHI), Quanta Services (PWR), Vulcan Materials (VMC), CRH (CRH), Martin Marietta Materials (MLM), Weyerhaeuser (WY), NVR (NVR), and Howmet Aerospace (HWM). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Otis Worldwide (NYSE:OTIS) and Lennar (NYSE:LEN) are both large-cap construction companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and dividends.
Otis Worldwide has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lennar has a beta of 1.48, indicating that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Otis Worldwide pays an annual dividend of $1.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Lennar pays an annual dividend of $1.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Otis Worldwide pays out 42.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lennar pays out 11.1% 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.
Lennar has a net margin of 11.66% compared to Otis Worldwide's net margin of 9.59%. Lennar's return on equity of 16.41% beat Otis Worldwide's return on equity.
Lennar received 834 more outperform votes than Otis Worldwide when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.52% of users gave Lennar an outperform vote while only 22.39% of users gave Otis Worldwide an outperform vote.
Otis Worldwide currently has a consensus price target of $87.86, suggesting a potential upside of 10.69%. Lennar has a consensus price target of $134.25, suggesting a potential upside of 20.19%. Given Lennar's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Lennar is more favorable than Otis Worldwide.
Lennar has higher revenue and earnings than Otis Worldwide. Lennar is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Otis Worldwide, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Lennar had 4 more articles in the media than Otis Worldwide. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Lennar and 13 mentions for Otis Worldwide. Lennar's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Otis Worldwide's score of 0.54 indicating that Lennar is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
85.5% of Otis Worldwide shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.9% of Lennar shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Otis Worldwide shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.5% of Lennar shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Lennar beats Otis Worldwide on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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