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Eagle Materials Inc (EXP) vs Knife River Corporation (KNF)

Eagle Materials Inc and Knife River Corporation are both Building Materials companies. Eagle Materials Inc is the larger, with a market value of $5.8B against $3.3B — 1.8× the size. Eagle Materials Inc trades at the lower P/E: 15.7× against 24.3×. Knife River Corporation grew revenue faster over the last twelve months: 10.9% against 1.61%. Eagle Materials Inc has the higher net margin (16.1% vs 3.98%) and the higher return on invested capital (10.8% vs 5.49%). Across the 22 metrics below, Eagle Materials Inc leads on 15 and Knife River Corporation on 7.

Valuation

Metric EXP KNF Building Materials median
P/E 15.70 24.33 18.55
P/S 2.48 0.97 1.63
P/B 3.79 1.87 2.40
Price to free cash flow 37.37 324.24 32.17
EV/EBITDA 10.12 9.41 10.02
EV/Sales 3.13 1.38 2.00
Earnings yield 6.37% 4.11% 4.74%
Free cash flow yield 2.68% 0.31% 2.78%

Profitability

Metric EXP KNF Building Materials median
Gross margin 25.79% 17.55% 26.23%
Operating margin 22.59% 8.12% 14.50%
Net margin 16.11% 3.98% 9.60%
Free cash flow margin 6.65% 0.30% 7.85%
Return on equity 24.54% 8.03% 8.83%
Return on assets 10.21% 3.37% 5.93%
Return on invested capital 10.84% 5.49% 6.51%

Growth

Metric EXP KNF Building Materials median
Revenue growth (TTM) 1.61% 10.87% 5.02%
EPS growth (last fiscal year) (4.43%) (22.25%) 0.64%
Revenue growth, 5-year CAGR 7.31% 7.63% 7.63%
Net income growth, 5-year CAGR 4.54% 1.29% 7.04%

Health

Metric EXP KNF Building Materials median
Debt to equity 1.14 0.89 0.52
Current ratio 3.29 2.73 1.59
Net debt to EBITDA 1.95 2.16 1.62

Dividend

Metric EXP KNF Building Materials median
Dividend yield 0.53% — 0.86%
Payout ratio 0.08 — 0.19

Size

Metric EXP KNF Building Materials median
Market cap 5.80b 3.25b 3.53b

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