Champion Homes (SKY) & The Competition Financial Contrast

Champion Homes (NYSE:SKY) is one of 150 public companies in the “Household Durables” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Champion Homes to similar businesses based on the strength of its profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, valuation and risk.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings for Champion Homes and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Champion Homes	0	2	5	1	2.88
Champion Homes Competitors	1721	7265	8042	300	2.40

Champion Homes currently has a consensus price target of $104.00, indicating a potential upside of 10.02%. As a group, “Household Durables” companies have a potential upside of 46.12%. Given Champion Homes’ competitors higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Champion Homes has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Champion Homes	7.16%	12.52%	9.29%
Champion Homes Competitors	-21.19%	-17.40%	1.18%

Volatility and Risk

Champion Homes has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Champion Homes’ competitors have a beta of 1.73, indicating that their average stock price is 73% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

53.7% of shares of all “Household Durables” companies are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Champion Homes shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 18.5% of shares of all “Household Durables” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Champion Homes	$2.66 billion	$206.90 million	27.56
Champion Homes Competitors	$5.32 billion	$322.27 million	27.10

Champion Homes’ competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Champion Homes. Champion Homes 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.

Summary

Champion Homes beats its competitors on 7 of the 13 factors compared.

Champion Homes Company Profile

Skyline Champion Corporation produces and sells factory-built housing in North America. The company offers manufactured and modular homes, park models RVs, accessory dwelling units, and modular buildings for the multi-family and hospitality sectors. It builds homes under the Skyline Homes, Champion Home Builders, Genesis Homes, Athens Park Models, Dutch Housing, Atlantic Homes, Excel Homes, Homes of Merit, New Era, Redman Homes, ScotBilt Homes, Shore Park, Silvercrest, and Titan Homes brands in the United States; and Moduline and SRI Homes brand names in western Canada. The company also provides construction services to install and set-up factory-built homes; operates a factory-direct manufactured home retail business under the Titan Factory Direct and Champion Homes Center brand names with 31 sales centers in the United States; and engages in the transportation of manufactured homes and recreational vehicles. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Troy, Michigan.