Head to Head Review: Amrize (AMRZ) and Its Peers

Amrize (NYSE:AMRZ) is one of 74 public companies in the “Construction Materials” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Amrize to related companies based on the strength of its dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.

Volatility and Risk

Amrize has a beta of 0.11, meaning that its stock price is 89% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amrize’s peers have a beta of 0.90, meaning that their average stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Amrize and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Amrize	$12.18 billion	$1.19 billion	21.00
Amrize Competitors	$32.70 billion	$651.37 million	28.29

Amrize’s peers have higher revenue, but lower earnings than Amrize. Amrize is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Amrize and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Amrize	2	5	9	1	2.53
Amrize Competitors	407	2059	2841	83	2.48

Amrize presently has a consensus price target of $60.57, suggesting a potential upside of 32.89%. As a group, “Construction Materials” companies have a potential upside of 419.94%. Given Amrize’s peers higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Amrize has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

46.5% of shares of all “Construction Materials” companies are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Amrize shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.0% of shares of all “Construction Materials” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Amrize and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Amrize	9.89%	10.22%	5.48%
Amrize Competitors	4.55%	7.96%	4.97%

Dividends

Amrize pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Amrize pays out 20.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Construction Materials” companies pay a dividend yield of 179.8% and pay out 31.6% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Summary

Amrize beats its peers on 8 of the 15 factors compared.

About Amrize

Amrize AG focuses on building materials business in North America. The company was incorporated in 2023 and is based in Zug, Switzerland. Amrize AG operates independently of Holcim AG as of June 23, 2025.