SHW vs. CRH, DHI, OTIS, LEN, URI, PWR, VMC, MLM, WY, and NVR
Should you be buying Sherwin-Williams stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sherwin-Williams include CRH (CRH), D.R. Horton (DHI), Otis Worldwide (OTIS), Lennar (LEN), United Rentals (URI), Quanta Services (PWR), Vulcan Materials (VMC), Martin Marietta Materials (MLM), Weyerhaeuser (WY), and NVR (NVR). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Sherwin-Williams (NYSE:SHW) and CRH (NYSE:CRH) are both large-cap construction companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, community ranking, risk and valuation.
75.9% of Sherwin-Williams shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.2% of CRH shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Sherwin-Williams shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Sherwin-Williams has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CRH has a beta of 1.19, suggesting that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CRH has higher revenue and earnings than Sherwin-Williams.
Sherwin-Williams received 383 more outperform votes than CRH when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.37% of users gave Sherwin-Williams an outperform vote while only 55.64% of users gave CRH an outperform vote.
Sherwin-Williams pays an annual dividend of $2.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. CRH pays an annual dividend of $0.37 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Sherwin-Williams pays out 26.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Sherwin-Williams currently has a consensus price target of $281.79, indicating a potential upside of 10.48%. CRH has a consensus price target of $25.17, indicating a potential downside of 54.02%. Given Sherwin-Williams' higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Sherwin-Williams is more favorable than CRH.
Sherwin-Williams has a net margin of 10.20% compared to CRH's net margin of 0.00%. Sherwin-Williams' return on equity of 83.63% beat CRH's return on equity.
In the previous week, Sherwin-Williams had 6 more articles in the media than CRH. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Sherwin-Williams and 8 mentions for CRH. Sherwin-Williams' average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat CRH's score of 0.61 indicating that Sherwin-Williams is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Sherwin-Williams beats CRH on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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