BCO vs. BRZE, PAGS, EXPO, CRVL, DNB, CBZ, NSP, CNXC, MAN, and CXT
Should you be buying Brink's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brink's include Braze (BRZE), PagSeguro Digital (PAGS), Exponent (EXPO), CorVel (CRVL), Dun & Bradstreet (DNB), CBIZ (CBZ), Insperity (NSP), Concentrix (CNXC), ManpowerGroup (MAN), and Crane NXT (CXT). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Braze (NASDAQ:BRZE) and Brink's (NYSE:BCO) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking and dividends.
Braze currently has a consensus price target of $63.41, indicating a potential upside of 48.19%. Brink's has a consensus price target of $106.50, indicating a potential upside of 19.50%. Given Brink's' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Braze is more favorable than Brink's.
90.5% of Braze shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.0% of Brink's shares are held by institutional investors. 26.5% of Braze shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Brink's shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Braze has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brink's has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Brink's received 375 more outperform votes than Braze when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.24% of users gave Brink's an outperform vote while only 52.71% of users gave Braze an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Braze had 2 more articles in the media than Brink's. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Braze and 2 mentions for Brink's. Braze's average media sentiment score of 1.68 beat Brink's' score of 0.21 indicating that Brink's is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Brink's has a net margin of 1.77% compared to Brink's' net margin of -27.44%. Braze's return on equity of 55.36% beat Brink's' return on equity.
Brink's has higher revenue and earnings than Braze. Braze is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brink's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Brink's beats Braze on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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