ARE vs. BDT, BDGI, BLDP, AFN, MTL, SIS, AND, BBD.A, WJX, and DBM
Should you be buying Aecon Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aecon Group include Bird Construction (BDT), Badger Infrastructure Solutions (BDGI), Ballard Power Systems (BLDP), Ag Growth International (AFN), Mullen Group (MTL), Savaria (SIS), Andlauer Healthcare Group (AND), Bombardier (BBD.A), Wajax (WJX), and Doman Building Materials Group (DBM). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Bird Construction (TSE:BDT) and Aecon Group (TSE:ARE) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
Aecon Group received 187 more outperform votes than Bird Construction when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.77% of users gave Aecon Group an outperform vote while only 55.31% of users gave Bird Construction an outperform vote.
Aecon Group has higher revenue and earnings than Bird Construction. Aecon Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bird Construction, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bird Construction has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aecon Group has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Bird Construction pays an annual dividend of C$0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Aecon Group pays an annual dividend of C$0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Bird Construction pays out 42.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Aecon Group pays out 36.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Aecon Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Bird Construction currently has a consensus price target of C$21.21, indicating a potential upside of 10.84%. Aecon Group has a consensus price target of C$19.17, indicating a potential upside of 13.64%. Given Bird Construction's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Aecon Group is more favorable than Bird Construction.
30.1% of Bird Construction shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.8% of Aecon Group shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of Bird Construction shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Aecon Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Aecon Group has a net margin of 3.49% compared to Aecon Group's net margin of 2.56%. Aecon Group's return on equity of 24.03% beat Bird Construction's return on equity.
In the previous week, Aecon Group had 32 more articles in the media than Bird Construction. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for Aecon Group and 2 mentions for Bird Construction. Aecon Group's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Bird Construction's score of 0.55 indicating that Bird Construction is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Aecon Group beats Bird Construction on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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