SHW vs. CRH, DHI, URI, LEN, OTIS, PWR, MLM, VMC, HWM, and WY
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), United Rentals (URI), Lennar (LEN), Otis Worldwide (OTIS), Quanta Services (PWR), Martin Marietta Materials (MLM), Vulcan Materials (VMC), Howmet Aerospace (HWM), and Weyerhaeuser (WY). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
CRH (NYSE:CRH) and Sherwin-Williams (NYSE:SHW) are both large-cap construction companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.
CRH currently has a consensus price target of $74.64, indicating a potential downside of 13.46%. Sherwin-Williams has a consensus price target of $320.39, indicating a potential downside of 7.76%. Given CRH's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sherwin-Williams is more favorable than CRH.
CRH has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sherwin-Williams has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
62.5% of CRH shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.7% of Sherwin-Williams shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Sherwin-Williams shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
CRH pays an annual dividend of $1.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Sherwin-Williams pays an annual dividend of $2.86 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Sherwin-Williams pays out 30.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sherwin-Williams has raised its dividend for 47 consecutive years.
CRH has higher revenue and earnings than Sherwin-Williams.
Sherwin-Williams received 390 more outperform votes than CRH when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.13% of users gave Sherwin-Williams an outperform vote while only 56.09% of users gave CRH an outperform vote.
Sherwin-Williams has a net margin of 10.36% compared to Sherwin-Williams' net margin of 0.00%. CRH's return on equity of 74.72% beat Sherwin-Williams' return on equity.
In the previous week, CRH had 1 more articles in the media than Sherwin-Williams. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for CRH and 10 mentions for Sherwin-Williams. CRH's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Sherwin-Williams' score of 0.85 indicating that Sherwin-Williams is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Sherwin-Williams beats CRH on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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