Installed Building Products, Inc. vs Tutor Perini Corporation, two Homebuilders stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Installed Building Products installs insulation for homebuilders; Tutor Perini builds heavy infrastructure, and neither is a homebuilder despite the sector tag. IBP earns a strong 38.17% return on equity at an 8.65% margin; Tutor Perini a thin 6.18% at 1.37%, the installer far more profitable than the civil contractor. IBP trades at 24.9 times earnings, Tutor Perini at 54.5. Both carry meaningful debt. The pair matches two construction-adjacent businesses of very different quality: IBP earns high returns installing building products, Tutor Perini runs the lumpy, low-margin economics of major public-works projects, and IBP is by far the better operator, though both trade well above the homebuilders they are bucketed with.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | IBP | TPC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $225.00 | $75.91 |
| Market cap | $6.1B | $4.1B |
| Sector | Homebuilders | Homebuilders |
| Stage | Mature | Growth |
| P/E | 24.0 | 52.0 |
| P/B | 9.09 | 3.23 |
| P/S | 2.06 | 0.72 |
| EV/EBITDA | 15.2 | 13.4 |
| Revenue growth | +0.4% | +26.3% |
| Gross margin | 32.1% | 11.1% |
| Operating margin | 8.7% | 4.3% |
| Net margin | 8.7% | 1.4% |
| Return on equity | 38.2% | 6.2% |
| Return on assets | 11.4% | 1.5% |
| Return on invested capital | 15.6% | 9.4% |
| FCF yield | 5.2% | 17.2% |
| Dividend yield | 1.4% | 0.1% |
| Debt / equity | 1.66 | 0.32 |
| Current ratio | 3.35 | 1.28 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 4.82 | 2.00 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 5 / 9 | 6 / 9 |
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