Champion Homes, Inc. vs Trex Company, Inc., two Forest Products stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where SKY and TREX diverge most: on debt / equity, SKY reads 0.02 and TREX reads 0.00; on operating margin, SKY reads 5.8% and TREX reads 24.3%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. What SKY's price implies is a somewhat stretched bet versus history (whole-company basis). What TREX's price implies is a somewhat stretched bet versus history (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | SKY | TREX |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $81.27 | $47.16 |
| Market cap | $4.6B | $5.0B |
| Sector | Forest Products | Forest Products |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| P/E | 22.2 | 26.2 |
| P/B | 2.91 | 4.98 |
| P/S | 1.72 | 4.21 |
| EV/EBITDA | 13.3 | 17.8 |
| Revenue growth | +7.3% | +5.6% |
| Gross margin | 24.9% | 40.5% |
| Operating margin | 5.8% | 24.3% |
| Net margin | 7.8% | 16.3% |
| Return on equity | 13.2% | 19.2% |
| Return on assets | 9.7% | 11.1% |
| Return on invested capital | 12.5% | 19.2% |
| FCF yield | 5.9% | 4.6% |
| Debt / equity | 0.02 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 2.48 | 1.02 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 8.33 | 6.40 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 5 / 9 | 6 / 9 |
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