BBY vs. HILS, BAB, MGNS, KLR, RNWH, KIE, SRP, QQ, GFTU, and DATA
Should you be buying Balfour Beatty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Balfour Beatty include Hill & Smith (HILS), Babcock International Group (BAB), Morgan Sindall Group (MGNS), Keller Group (KLR), Renew (RNWH), Kier Group (KIE), Serco Group (SRP), QinetiQ Group (QQ), Grafton Group (GFTU), and GlobalData (DATA). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Hill & Smith (LON:HILS) and Balfour Beatty (LON:BBY) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking and media sentiment.
Balfour Beatty has higher revenue and earnings than Hill & Smith. Balfour Beatty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hill & Smith, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hill & Smith pays an annual dividend of GBX 43 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Balfour Beatty pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Hill & Smith pays out 5,058.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Balfour Beatty pays out 2,857.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Balfour Beatty is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Hill & Smith currently has a consensus price target of GBX 1,903.33, indicating a potential downside of 0.30%. Given Balfour Beatty's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Hill & Smith is more favorable than Balfour Beatty.
In the previous week, Hill & Smith had 2 more articles in the media than Balfour Beatty. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Hill & Smith and 1 mentions for Balfour Beatty. Hill & Smith's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Balfour Beatty's score of 0.24 indicating that Balfour Beatty is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Hill & Smith has a net margin of 8.29% compared to Hill & Smith's net margin of 2.47%. Balfour Beatty's return on equity of 16.79% beat Hill & Smith's return on equity.
78.5% of Hill & Smith shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.0% of Balfour Beatty shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Hill & Smith shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Balfour Beatty shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Hill & Smith has a beta of 1.25, indicating that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Balfour Beatty has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Balfour Beatty received 324 more outperform votes than Hill & Smith when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.39% of users gave Hill & Smith an outperform vote while only 65.42% of users gave Balfour Beatty an outperform vote.
Summary
Hill & Smith beats Balfour Beatty on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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