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.
Where IBP and TPC diverge most: on revenue growth, IBP reads +0.2% and TPC reads +25.6%; on dividend yield, IBP reads 1.7% and TPC reads 0.1%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's IBP price has a different growth bar priced in than TPC (+17.8% implied for IBP vs +24.2% for TPC); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What TPC's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | IBP | TPC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $185.47 | $83.18 |
| Market cap | $5.0B | $4.4B |
| Sector | Homebuilders | Homebuilders |
| Stage | Mature | Growth |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +17.8% | +24.2% |
| P/E | 20.0 | 36.0 |
| P/B | 7.75 | 3.33 |
| P/S | 1.67 | 0.75 |
| EV/EBITDA | 12.9 | 12.5 |
| Revenue growth | +0.2% | +25.6% |
| Gross margin | 33.3% | 12.9% |
| Operating margin | 12.2% | 7.2% |
| Net margin | 8.5% | 2.1% |
| Return on equity | 39.2% | 9.3% |
| Return on assets | 11.1% | 2.3% |
| Return on invested capital | 16.5% | 11.3% |
| FCF yield | 5.9% | 14.0% |
| Dividend yield | 1.7% | 0.1% |
| Debt / equity | 1.66 | 0.30 |
| Current ratio | 2.98 | 1.29 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 4.38 | 2.09 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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