Financial Review: UltraTech Cement (OTCMKTS:UCLQF) and Suncrete (NASDAQ:RMIX)

Suncrete (NASDAQ:RMIX) and UltraTech Cement (OTCMKTS:UCLQF) are both materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends and institutional ownership.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Suncrete and UltraTech Cement”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Suncrete	N/A	N/A	N/A	($0.14)	-119.29
UltraTech Cement	N/A	N/A	N/A	$84.03	1.22

Suncrete is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than UltraTech Cement, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares Suncrete and UltraTech Cement’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Suncrete	N/A	N/A	N/A
UltraTech Cement	N/A	N/A	N/A

Institutional and Insider Ownership

71.1% of Suncrete shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.1% of UltraTech Cement shares are held by institutional investors. 22.2% of Suncrete shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings for Suncrete and UltraTech Cement, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Suncrete	0	1	3	2	3.17
UltraTech Cement	0	0	0	0	0.00

Suncrete currently has a consensus target price of $22.25, suggesting a potential upside of 33.23%. Given Suncrete’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Suncrete is more favorable than UltraTech Cement.

Summary

Suncrete beats UltraTech Cement on 6 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Suncrete

Haymaker Acquisition Corp. 4 is a blank check company. It focuses on effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization, or other business combination with one or more businesses or entities. Haymaker Acquisition Corp. 4 is based in New York.

About UltraTech Cement

UltraTech Cement Limited, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells cement and cement related products in India. It offers ordinary Portland cement, Portland blast furnace slag cement, Portland Pozzolana cement, ready mix concrete, white cement, and white cement-based products; and ready-mix concrete. The company provides Tile Adhesive polymer under TILEFIXO, FLEX, HIFLEX; Seal & Dry water proofing products for kitchen balconies, chajjas, slope roofs, bathrooms, canal linings, swimming pools, and water tanks; Power Grout, an industrial grout for machine foundation, precast elements, and safety vaults; Readi Plast and Super Stucco, a plastering agent for internal and external walls; as well as liquid system for mortar and concrete modifier, repair mortars and concrete under the name of Basekrete and Microkrete. In addition, the company offers bed jointing material for AAC block, Fly Ash Bricks, and concrete blocks, and light weight block for masonry construction, and flooring screeds. Further, the company offers construction products for home builders; and value-added services that include technical advice during concreting, vaastu consultancy, various training programs, and other related services. The company exports its products to the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Sri Lanka. UltraTech Cement Limited was incorporated in 2000 and is based in Mumbai, India. The company operates as a subsidiary of Grasim Industries Limited.