Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. vs Champion Homes, Inc., two Forest Products stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Fortune Brands makes water, outdoor, and security building products, earning 11.52% on equity at a 6.12% net margin, and carries real debt, 1.15 to equity. Skyline Champion builds manufactured homes, earns a higher 13.15% on equity at a wider 7.77% margin, and runs almost debt-free, 0.02 to equity. The market pays 24.32 times earnings for Skyline against 20.44 for Fortune Brands, and 3.18 times book versus 2.34. Fortune Brands pays a 2.2% dividend Skyline does not, and generates strong free cash, 6.15% of price against 5.39%. Fortune Brands at $5.5B and Skyline at $5.0B are close in size, split mainly by leverage and dividend.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | FBIN | SKY |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $51.60 | $81.27 |
| Market cap | $6.2B | $4.6B |
| Sector | Forest Products | Forest Products |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +17.0% | — |
| P/E | 22.9 | 22.2 |
| P/B | 2.63 | 2.91 |
| P/S | 1.40 | 1.72 |
| EV/EBITDA | 17.3 | 13.3 |
| Revenue growth | -2.0% | +7.3% |
| Gross margin | — | 24.9% |
| Operating margin | 6.0% | 5.8% |
| Net margin | 6.1% | 7.8% |
| Return on equity | 11.5% | 13.2% |
| Return on assets | 4.2% | 9.7% |
| Return on invested capital | 6.8% | 12.5% |
| FCF yield | 5.5% | 5.9% |
| Dividend yield | 2.0% | — |
| Debt / equity | 1.15 | 0.02 |
| Current ratio | 2.13 | 2.48 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 2.47 | 8.33 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 4 / 9 | 5 / 9 |
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