WGO vs. THO, HLMN, USLM, JBI, JELD, PRIM, ROCK, ASPN, PATK, and FTDR
Should you be buying Winnebago Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Winnebago Industries include THOR Industries (THO), Hillman Solutions (HLMN), United States Lime & Minerals (USLM), Janus International Group (JBI), JELD-WEN (JELD), Primoris Services (PRIM), Gibraltar Industries (ROCK), Aspen Aerogels (ASPN), Patrick Industries (PATK), and Frontdoor (FTDR). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
THOR Industries (NYSE:THO) and Winnebago Industries (NYSE:WGO) are both construction companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
96.5% of THOR Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 4.7% of THOR Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of Winnebago Industries shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
THOR Industries has a beta of 1.79, meaning that its share price is 79% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Winnebago Industries has a beta of 1.71, meaning that its share price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500.
THOR Industries pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Winnebago Industries pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. THOR Industries pays out 38.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Winnebago Industries pays out 23.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. THOR Industries has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years and Winnebago Industries has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Winnebago Industries is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, THOR Industries had 5 more articles in the media than Winnebago Industries. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for THOR Industries and 6 mentions for Winnebago Industries. THOR Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.35 beat Winnebago Industries' score of 0.27 indicating that Winnebago Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
THOR Industries received 214 more outperform votes than Winnebago Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.52% of users gave THOR Industries an outperform vote while only 64.03% of users gave Winnebago Industries an outperform vote.
THOR Industries presently has a consensus target price of $104.00, indicating a potential upside of 0.83%. Winnebago Industries has a consensus target price of $71.40, indicating a potential upside of 12.49%. Given THOR Industries' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Winnebago Industries is more favorable than THOR Industries.
THOR Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Winnebago Industries. Winnebago Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than THOR Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Winnebago Industries has a net margin of 5.50% compared to Winnebago Industries' net margin of 2.62%. THOR Industries' return on equity of 16.96% beat Winnebago Industries' return on equity.
Summary
THOR Industries beats Winnebago Industries on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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