SKY vs. CVCO, KNF, RYN, GTES, KBH, MDC, DY, ACA, AWI, and LPX
Should you be buying Skyline Champion stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Skyline Champion include Cavco Industries (CVCO), Knife River (KNF), Rayonier (RYN), Gates Industrial (GTES), KB Home (KBH), M.D.C. (MDC), Dycom Industries (DY), Arcosa (ACA), Armstrong World Industries (AWI), and Louisiana-Pacific (LPX). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Cavco Industries (NASDAQ:CVCO) and Skyline Champion (NYSE:SKY) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Skyline Champion has higher revenue and earnings than Cavco Industries. Cavco Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Skyline Champion, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Skyline Champion has a net margin of 10.19% compared to Skyline Champion's net margin of 9.25%. Skyline Champion's return on equity of 17.00% beat Cavco Industries' return on equity.
Cavco Industries received 183 more outperform votes than Skyline Champion when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.00% of users gave Cavco Industries an outperform vote while only 34.72% of users gave Skyline Champion an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Skyline Champion had 8 more articles in the media than Cavco Industries. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Skyline Champion and 2 mentions for Cavco Industries. Cavco Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Skyline Champion's score of 0.31 indicating that Skyline Champion is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cavco Industries currently has a consensus price target of $364.00, suggesting a potential downside of 2.31%. Skyline Champion has a consensus price target of $71.40, suggesting a potential downside of 6.48%. Given Skyline Champion's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Cavco Industries is more favorable than Skyline Champion.
95.6% of Cavco Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Cavco Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.0% of Skyline Champion shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Cavco Industries has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Skyline Champion has a beta of 1.53, indicating that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Skyline Champion beats Cavco Industries on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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