Trex Company, Inc. vs UFP INDUSTRIES, INC., two Forest Products stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where TREX and UFPI diverge most: on revenue growth, TREX reads +5.6% and UFPI reads -6.6%; on debt / equity, TREX reads 0.00 and UFPI reads 0.08. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. What TREX's price implies is a somewhat stretched bet versus history (whole-company basis). What UFPI'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 | TREX | UFPI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $47.16 | $84.80 |
| Market cap | $5.0B | $4.6B |
| Sector | Forest Products | Forest Products |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | — | +7.1% |
| P/E | 26.2 | 18.5 |
| P/B | 4.98 | 1.49 |
| P/S | 4.21 | 0.75 |
| EV/EBITDA | 17.8 | 8.7 |
| Revenue growth | +5.6% | -6.6% |
| Gross margin | 40.5% | 16.1% |
| Operating margin | 24.3% | 4.4% |
| Net margin | 16.3% | 4.3% |
| Return on equity | 19.2% | 8.6% |
| Return on assets | 11.1% | 6.6% |
| Return on invested capital | 19.2% | 7.7% |
| FCF yield | 4.6% | 6.5% |
| Dividend yield | — | 1.6% |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.08 |
| Current ratio | 1.02 | 4.64 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 6.40 | 5.99 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 5 / 9 |
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