TREX vs. ROLL, CR, SNA, NPO, CRS, GOGL, PWR, PGTI, VIEWW, and HTZ
Should you be buying Trex stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Trex include RBC Bearings (ROLL), Crane (CR), Snap-on (SNA), Enpro (NPO), Carpenter Technology (CRS), Golden Ocean Group (GOGL), Quanta Services (PWR), PGT Innovations (PGTI), View (VIEWW), and Hertz Global (HTZ).
RBC Bearings (NASDAQ:ROLL) and Trex (NYSE:TREX) are both industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation and profitability.
Trex received 435 more outperform votes than RBC Bearings when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.63% of users gave Trex an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave RBC Bearings an outperform vote.
Trex has lower revenue, but higher earnings than RBC Bearings. Trex is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RBC Bearings, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Trex has a net margin of 18.76% compared to Trex's net margin of 0.00%. RBC Bearings' return on equity of 31.26% beat Trex's return on equity.
RBC Bearings has a beta of 1.34, indicating that its share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Trex has a beta of 1.58, indicating that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Trex has a consensus price target of $86.89, suggesting a potential downside of 8.27%. Given RBC Bearings' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Trex is more favorable than RBC Bearings.
96.4% of Trex shares are held by institutional investors. 2.8% of RBC Bearings shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Trex shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Trex had 14 more articles in the media than RBC Bearings. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Trex and 2 mentions for RBC Bearings. RBC Bearings' average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Trex's score of 0.15 indicating that Trex is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Trex beats RBC Bearings on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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