Summit Materials (SUM) Competitors

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

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of SUM or CBT?

91.1% of Cabot shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Summit Materials shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Cabot shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts prefer SUM or CBT?

Summit Materials presently has a consensus target price of $39.38, suggesting a potential upside of 22.27%. Cabot has a consensus target price of $83.75, suggesting a potential upside of 22.21%. Given Summit Materials' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Summit Materials is more favorable than Cabot.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Summit Materials	1 Sell rating(s)	5 Hold rating(s)	7 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.46
Cabot	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.75

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in SUM or CBT?

Summit Materials received 24 more outperform votes than Cabot when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.50% of users gave Summit Materials an outperform vote while only 61.64% of users gave Cabot an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Summit Materials	Outperform Votes 400 62.50%	Underperform Votes 240 37.50%
Cabot	Outperform Votes 376 61.64%	Underperform Votes 234 38.36%

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, SUM or CBT?

Summit Materials has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Cabot. Cabot 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
Summit Materials	$2.41B	1.59	$275.94M	$1.41	22.88
Cabot	$4.32B	0.89	$209M	$5.29	12.95

Is SUM or CBT more profitable?

Cabot has a net margin of 7.48% compared to Summit Materials' net margin of 6.85%. Cabot's return on equity of 25.98% beat Summit Materials' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Summit Materials	6.85%	8.79%	4.12%
Cabot	7.48%	25.98%	8.72%

Does the media prefer SUM or CBT?

In the previous week, Summit Materials had 2 more articles in the media than Cabot. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Summit Materials and 2 mentions for Cabot. Summit Materials' average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Cabot's score of 0.21 indicating that Summit Materials is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Summit Materials	3 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Cabot	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Which has more risk & volatility, SUM or CBT?

Summit Materials has a beta of 1.46, suggesting that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cabot has a beta of 1.29, suggesting that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Summit Materials beats Cabot on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.