Everus Construction Group (NYSE:ECG) & Gibraltar Industries (NASDAQ:ROCK) Critical Survey

Everus Construction Group (NYSE:ECG) and Gibraltar Industries (NASDAQ:ROCK) are both construction companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Everus Construction Group and Gibraltar Industries, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Everus Construction Group	0	2	2	1	2.80
Gibraltar Industries	1	1	0	1	2.33

Everus Construction Group presently has a consensus target price of $100.33, suggesting a potential upside of 17.46%. Given Everus Construction Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Everus Construction Group is more favorable than Gibraltar Industries.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Everus Construction Group and Gibraltar Industries”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Everus Construction Group	$2.85 billion	1.53	$143.42 million	$3.53	24.20
Gibraltar Industries	$1.31 billion	1.12	$137.34 million	$0.08	618.00

Everus Construction Group has higher revenue and earnings than Gibraltar Industries. Everus Construction Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gibraltar Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

98.4% of Gibraltar Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Everus Construction Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Gibraltar Industries shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility and Risk

Everus Construction Group has a beta of 3.84, suggesting that its share price is 284% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gibraltar Industries has a beta of 1.26, suggesting that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Everus Construction Group and Gibraltar Industries’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Everus Construction Group	5.18%	36.74%	12.59%
Gibraltar Industries	0.35%	12.58%	8.82%

Summary

Everus Construction Group beats Gibraltar Industries on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Everus Construction Group

Everus Construction Group is providing a full spectrum of construction services through its electrical and mechanical and transmission and distribution specialty contracting services principally in United States. Its specialty contracting services are provided to utility, transportation, commercial, industrial, institutional, renewable and other customers. Everus Construction Group is based in BISMARCK, N.D.

About Gibraltar Industries

Gibraltar Industries, Inc. manufactures and provides products and services for the renewable energy, residential, agtech, and infrastructure markets in the United States and internationally. It operates through four segments: Renewables, Residential, Agtech, and Infrastructure. The Renewables segment designs, engineers, manufactures, and installs solar racking and electrical balance of systems for commercial and distributed generation scale solar installations. The Residential segment offers roof and foundation ventilation products and accessories; mail and electronic package solutions, including single mailboxes, cluster style mail and parcel boxes for single and multi-family housing, and electronic package locker systems; roof edgings and flashings; soffits and trims; drywall corner beads; metal roofing and accessories; rain dispersion products comprising gutters and accessories; and exterior retractable awnings. This segment also provides electronic parcel lockers, pipe flashings, and remote-controlled deck awnings and valances for sun protection. The Agtech segment offers growing and processing solutions, including the designing, engineering, manufacturing, construction, maintenance, and support of greenhouses; and indoor growing operations for retail, fruits and vegetables, flowers, cannabis, commercial, institutional and conservatories, and car wash structure applications. The Infrastructure segment offers expansion joints, structural bearings, rubber pre-formed seals and other sealants, elastomeric concrete, and bridge cable protection systems. It serves solar developers, home improvement retailers, wholesalers, distributors, and contractors, as well as institutional and commercial growers of fruit, vegetables, flowers, and plants. Gibraltar Industries, Inc. was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Buffalo, New York.