LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION vs Trex Company, Inc., two Forest Products stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where LPX and TREX diverge most: on revenue growth, LPX reads -14.5% and TREX reads +6.8%; on fcf yield, LPX reads -0.5% and TREX reads 4.5%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. What LPX's price implies is a somewhat stretched bet versus history (whole-company basis). What TREX'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 | LPX | TREX |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $65.75 | $44.80 |
| Market cap | $4.6B | $4.6B |
| Sector | Forest Products | Forest Products |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| P/E | 84.3 | 26.5 |
| P/B | 2.64 | 4.54 |
| P/S | 1.87 | 3.80 |
| EV/EBITDA | 19.4 | 14.6 |
| Revenue growth | -14.5% | +6.8% |
| Gross margin | 17.5% | 37.9% |
| Operating margin | 4.7% | 20.6% |
| Net margin | 2.2% | 14.7% |
| Return on equity | 3.1% | 17.6% |
| Return on assets | 2.1% | 10.9% |
| Return on invested capital | 5.0% | 21.6% |
| FCF yield | -0.5% | 4.5% |
| Dividend yield | 0.4% | — |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 3.22 | 1.06 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 5.31 | 7.05 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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