Head-To-Head Contrast: Tutor Perini (NYSE:TPC) and YIT Oyj (OTCMKTS:YITYY)

YIT Oyj (OTCMKTS:YITYY) and Tutor Perini (NYSE:TPC) are both industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and risk.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares YIT Oyj and Tutor Perini”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
YIT Oyj	N/A	N/A	N/A	C$0.20	7.74
Tutor Perini	$5.54 billion	0.92	$80.44 million	$2.32	41.70

Tutor Perini has higher revenue and earnings than YIT Oyj. YIT Oyj is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tutor Perini, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Dividends

YIT Oyj pays an annual dividend of C$0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.6%. Tutor Perini pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. YIT Oyj pays out 59.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Tutor Perini pays out 10.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for YIT Oyj and Tutor Perini, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
YIT Oyj	0	0	0	0	0.00
Tutor Perini	1	1	2	0	2.25

Tutor Perini has a consensus price target of $105.00, suggesting a potential upside of 8.53%. Given Tutor Perini’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Tutor Perini is more favorable than YIT Oyj.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

65.0% of Tutor Perini shares are held by institutional investors. 15.4% of Tutor Perini shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares YIT Oyj and Tutor Perini’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
YIT Oyj	N/A	N/A	N/A
Tutor Perini	2.08%	20.95%	5.15%

Summary

Tutor Perini beats YIT Oyj on 12 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About YIT Oyj

YIT Oyj provides construction services in Finland, Central Eastern European, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Baltic countries, and internationally. It operates through The Housing, The Business Premises, The Infrastructure, and Other segments. The company develops and constructs apartments, residential areas, living services, and leisure-time residences; and develops and carries business premises and hybrid projects. It also constructs and renovates projects for office, retail, sports, hotel, commercial, logistics, and industrial buildings, as well as public buildings, such as hospitals, health and wellbeing centers, day care centers, schools, and multipurpose buildings. In addition, the company undertakes pipe renovation works for housing companies. Further, the company is involved in the railway and traffic route construction and maintenance, green construction, bridge building and repairing, foundation construction and other earthwork, and shoreline and water works construction activities; and undertakes construction works, such as excavation and structural engineering, water supply construction, and implementing parking facilities. YIT Oyj was founded in 1910 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland.

About Tutor Perini

Tutor Perini Corporation, a construction company, provides diversified general contracting, construction management, and design-build services to private customers and public agencies in the United States and internationally. It operates through three segments: Civil, Building, and Specialty Contractors. The Civil segment engages in the public works construction and the replacement and reconstruction of infrastructure; and offers contracting services, including construction and rehabilitation of highways, bridges, tunnels, mass-transit systems, military defense facilities, and water management and wastewater treatment facilities, as well as provides drilling, foundation, and excavation support for shoring, bridges, piers, roads, and highway projects. The Building segment offers range of services in various specialized building markets, such as hospitality and gaming, transportation, health care, commercial offices, government facilities, sports and entertainment, education, correctional and detention facilities, biotech, pharmaceutical, industrial, and technology. The Specialty Contractors segment provides electrical, mechanical, plumbing, and fire protection systems, as well as heating, ventilation, and air conditioning services (HVAC) for civil and building construction projects in industrial, commercial, hospitality and gaming, and mass-transit end markets. It also offers pre-construction planning and project management services comprising planning and scheduling of the manpower, equipment, materials, and subcontractor services; and self-performed construction services consisting of site work, concrete forming and placement, and steel erection. The company was formerly known as Perini Corporation and changed its name to Tutor Perini Corporation in May 2009. Tutor Perini Corporation was founded in 1894 and is headquartered in Sylmar, California.