Reviewing Cemex (NYSE:CX) & General Enterprise Ventures (OTCMKTS:GEVI)

Cemex (NYSE:CX) and General Enterprise Ventures (OTCMKTS:GEVI) are both construction companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Cemex and General Enterprise Ventures”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Cemex	$16.20 billion	0.68	$939.00 million	$0.96	7.95
General Enterprise Ventures	$810,000.00	146.87	-$6.88 million	($0.32)	-5.63

Cemex has higher revenue and earnings than General Enterprise Ventures. General Enterprise Ventures is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cemex, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Cemex and General Enterprise Ventures, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Cemex	1	4	3	0	2.25
General Enterprise Ventures	0	0	0	0	0.00

Cemex presently has a consensus target price of $7.74, suggesting a potential upside of 1.46%. Given Cemex’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Cemex is more favorable than General Enterprise Ventures.

Profitability

This table compares Cemex and General Enterprise Ventures’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Cemex	8.84%	6.47%	2.92%
General Enterprise Ventures	-1,060.52%	-424.18%	-229.79%

Volatility and Risk

Cemex has a beta of 1.38, suggesting that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, General Enterprise Ventures has a beta of 6.37, suggesting that its stock price is 537% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

83.0% of Cemex shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Cemex shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Cemex beats General Enterprise Ventures on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Cemex

CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V., together with its subsidiaries, produces, markets, distributes, and sells cement, ready-mix concrete, aggregates, urbanization solutions, and other construction materials and services worldwide. The company offers gray ordinary portland, white portland, oil-well, and blended cement products; mortar; and standard ready-mix, architectural and decorative, rapid-setting, fiber-reinforced, fluid-fill, roller-compacted, self-consolidating, pervious, and antibacterial, and other concrete products. It also provides crushed stone, sand, gravel, and recycled concrete products; performance materials, such as admixtures, mortars, special mortars, and asphalt; and waste management services comprising municipal and industrial, construction, demolition and excavation, and alternative raw materials. In addition, the company construction related services, including logistics and transportation, retail, pavement services, design and engineering, and others; and industrial construction products consist of precast components, 2D panels, 3D modules, and complete structures. CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in San Pedro Garza García, Mexico.

About General Enterprise Ventures

General Enterprise Ventures, Inc., engages in installing large home and facility proactive wildfire prevention systems. It offers CitroTech products for the prevention and spread of wildfires, as well as lumber treatments for fire prevention. The company was formerly known as General Entertainment Ventures, Inc. and changed its name to General Enterprise Ventures, Inc. in October 2021. General Enterprise Ventures, Inc. is based in Cheyenne, Wyoming.