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James Hardie Industries PLC. (JHX) vs Vulcan Materials Company (VMC)

James Hardie Industries PLC. and Vulcan Materials Company are both Building Materials companies. Vulcan Materials Company is the larger, with a market value of $32.7B against $15.0B — 2.2× the size. Vulcan Materials Company trades at the lower P/E: 30.2× against 103×. James Hardie Industries PLC. grew revenue faster over the last twelve months: 42.9% against 6.86%. Vulcan Materials Company has the higher net margin (13.8% vs 2.69%) and the higher return on invested capital (8.17% vs 3.17%). Across the 22 metrics below, Vulcan Materials Company leads on 16 and James Hardie Industries PLC. on 6.

Valuation

Metric JHX VMC Building Materials median
P/E 103.28 30.19 17.42
P/S 2.77 4.11 1.63
P/B 2.29 3.93 2.18
Price to free cash flow 32.25 31.79 28.70
EV/EBITDA 16.62 15.82 9.23
EV/Sales 3.48 4.62 1.90
Earnings yield 0.97% 3.31% 4.89%
Free cash flow yield 3.10% 3.15% 3.13%

Profitability

Metric JHX VMC Building Materials median
Gross margin 35.88% 27.51% 27.27%
Operating margin 9.73% 20.25% 13.85%
Net margin 2.69% 13.75% 9.59%
Free cash flow margin 8.59% 12.94% 8.06%
Return on equity 3.31% 13.19% 9.62%
Return on assets 1.44% 6.68% 5.86%
Return on invested capital 3.17% 8.17% 6.03%

Growth

Metric JHX VMC Building Materials median
Revenue growth (TTM) 42.93% 6.86% 6.93%
EPS growth (last fiscal year) (80.61%) 18.39% (0.29%)
Revenue growth, 5-year CAGR 10.70% 10.33% 7.63%
Net income growth, 5-year CAGR (16.92%) 13.00% 7.04%

Health

Metric JHX VMC Building Materials median
Debt to equity 0.67 0.51 0.51
Current ratio 1.59 1.76 1.58
Net debt to EBITDA 4.35 1.76 1.48

Dividend

Metric JHX VMC Building Materials median
Dividend yield — 0.80% 0.93%
Payout ratio — 0.24 0.19

Size

Metric JHX VMC Building Materials median
Market cap 15.04b 32.71b 2.68b

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