BBU vs. BBCP, VVX, MTTR, COUR, GCT, STER, IAS, ZKH, NVEE, and SCS
Should you be buying Brookfield Business Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Business Partners include Concrete Pumping (BBCP), V2X (VVX), Matterport (MTTR), Coursera (COUR), GigaCloud Technology (GCT), Sterling Check (STER), Integral Ad Science (IAS), ZKH Group (ZKH), NV5 Global (NVEE), and Steelcase (SCS). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Concrete Pumping (NASDAQ:BBCP) and Brookfield Business Partners (NYSE:BBU) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
Concrete Pumping currently has a consensus target price of $8.50, suggesting a potential upside of 23.55%. Brookfield Business Partners has a consensus target price of $30.33, suggesting a potential upside of 53.35%. Given Concrete Pumping's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Brookfield Business Partners is more favorable than Concrete Pumping.
Brookfield Business Partners received 163 more outperform votes than Concrete Pumping when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.93% of users gave Brookfield Business Partners an outperform vote while only 57.08% of users gave Concrete Pumping an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Concrete Pumping had 1 more articles in the media than Brookfield Business Partners. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Concrete Pumping and 1 mentions for Brookfield Business Partners. Brookfield Business Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat Concrete Pumping's score of -0.59 indicating that Concrete Pumping is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Concrete Pumping has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookfield Business Partners has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Brookfield Business Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Concrete Pumping. Brookfield Business Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Concrete Pumping, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Brookfield Business Partners has a net margin of 7.08% compared to Brookfield Business Partners' net margin of 4.81%. Concrete Pumping's return on equity of 21.64% beat Brookfield Business Partners' return on equity.
34.2% of Concrete Pumping shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.0% of Brookfield Business Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 27.4% of Concrete Pumping shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Brookfield Business Partners beats Concrete Pumping on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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