Financial Comparison: Everus Construction Group (ECG) & The Competition

Everus Construction Group (NYSE:ECG) is one of 188 public companies in the “Construction & Engineering” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its rivals? We will compare Everus Construction Group to related businesses based on the strength of its risk, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability and valuation.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Everus Construction Group and its rivals, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Everus Construction Group	0	4	4	1	2.67
Everus Construction Group Competitors	844	3454	7339	356	2.60

Everus Construction Group currently has a consensus target price of $169.50, indicating a potential upside of 65.83%. As a group, “Construction & Engineering” companies have a potential upside of 40.50%. Given Everus Construction Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Everus Construction Group is more favorable than its rivals.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Everus Construction Group and its rivals top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Everus Construction Group	$3.75 billion	$201.77 million	20.57
Everus Construction Group Competitors	$10.75 billion	$456.60 million	-5,802.61

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

Volatility and Risk

Everus Construction Group has a beta of 2.36, suggesting that its stock price is 136% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Everus Construction Group’s rivals have a beta of 1.61, suggesting that their average stock price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Everus Construction Group	5.96%	38.22%	14.02%
Everus Construction Group Competitors	-4.04%	2.59%	3.80%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

48.9% of shares of all “Construction & Engineering” companies are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Everus Construction Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 20.9% of shares of all “Construction & Engineering” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Everus Construction Group beats its rivals on 8 of the 13 factors compared.

Everus Construction Group Company Profile

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.