Financial Comparison: LGN (LGN) & The Competition

LGN (NASDAQ:LGN) is one of 190 public companies in the “Construction & Engineering” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare LGN to similar companies based on the strength of its risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for LGN and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
LGN	1	2	8	1	2.75
LGN Competitors	797	3337	7115	334	2.60

LGN presently has a consensus price target of $96.80, suggesting a potential upside of 47.67%. As a group, “Construction & Engineering” companies have a potential upside of 24.70%. Given LGN’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe LGN is more favorable than its competitors.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

48.9% of shares of all “Construction & Engineering” companies are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of LGN shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 20.5% of shares of all “Construction & Engineering” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares LGN and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
LGN	N/A	N/A	N/A
LGN Competitors	-7.58%	11.28%	4.19%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares LGN and its competitors revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
LGN	$2.55 billion	-$59.78 million	285.00
LGN Competitors	$9.47 billion	$451.89 million	-5,961.78

LGN’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than LGN. LGN is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

LGN Company Profile

Legence Corp. is a provider of engineering, consulting, installation and maintenance services for mission-critical systems in buildings. The company specializes in designing, fabricating and installing complex HVAC, process piping and other mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems. Legence Corp. is based in SAN JOSE, Calif.