Summit Materials (SUM) Competitors

Knife River (NYSE:KNF) and Summit Materials (NYSE:SUM) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and media sentiment.

Do analysts recommend KNF or SUM?

Knife River currently has a consensus price target of $76.20, suggesting a potential downside of 2.89%. Summit Materials has a consensus price target of $46.09, suggesting a potential upside of 16.49%. Given Knife River's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Summit Materials is more favorable than Knife River.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Knife River	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.83
Summit Materials	0 Sell rating(s)	5 Hold rating(s)	7 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.58

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in KNF or SUM?

Summit Materials received 404 more outperform votes than Knife River when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave Knife River an outperform vote while only 62.50% of users gave Summit Materials an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Knife River	Outperform Votes 6 66.67%	Underperform Votes 3 33.33%
Summit Materials	Outperform Votes 410 62.50%	Underperform Votes 246 37.50%

Which has stronger earnings & valuation, KNF or SUM?

Summit Materials has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Knife River. Knife River is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Summit Materials, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Knife River	$2.83B	1.57	$182.87M	-$512.56	-0.15
Summit Materials	$2.62B	2.63	$289.63M	$2.38	16.62

Is KNF or SUM more profitable?

Summit Materials has a net margin of 10.91% compared to Summit Materials' net margin of 6.46%. Summit Materials' return on equity of 15.98% beat Knife River's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Knife River	6.46%	15.98%	7.14%
Summit Materials	10.91%	8.73%	4.18%

Do institutionals & insiders believe in KNF or SUM?

80.1% of Knife River shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Knife River shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Summit Materials shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media prefer KNF or SUM?

In the previous week, Summit Materials had 6 more articles in the media than Knife River. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Summit Materials and 2 mentions for Knife River. Summit Materials' average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Knife River's score of 0.36 indicating that Knife River is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Knife River	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Summit Materials	2 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	4 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Summary

Summit Materials beats Knife River on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.