MDA vs. BBD.A, HRX, MAL, BBD.B, BDGI, WTE, CJT, BBU.UN, EIF, and MTL
Should you be buying MDA stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MDA include Bombardier (BBD.A), Héroux-Devtek (HRX), Magellan Aerospace (MAL), Bombardier, Inc. Class B (BBD.B), Badger Infrastructure Solutions (BDGI), Westshore Terminals Investment (WTE), Cargojet (CJT), Brookfield Business Partners (BBU.UN), Exchange Income (EIF), and Mullen Group (MTL). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Bombardier (TSE:BBD.A) and MDA (TSE:MDA) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
Bombardier currently has a consensus target price of C$60.00, indicating a potential downside of 4.96%. MDA has a consensus target price of C$14.88, indicating a potential upside of 0.85%. Given Bombardier's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe MDA is more favorable than Bombardier.
Bombardier has higher revenue and earnings than MDA. Bombardier is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MDA, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, MDA had 4 more articles in the media than Bombardier. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for MDA and 8 mentions for Bombardier. Bombardier's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat MDA's score of 0.34 indicating that MDA is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bombardier has a beta of 2.96, indicating that its stock price is 196% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MDA has a beta of 0.12, indicating that its stock price is 88% less volatile than the S&P 500.
2.0% of Bombardier shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.0% of MDA shares are owned by institutional investors. 84.8% of Bombardier shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 13.2% of MDA shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Bombardier received 40 more outperform votes than MDA when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.01% of users gave Bombardier an outperform vote while only 59.22% of users gave MDA an outperform vote.
MDA has a net margin of 6.04% compared to MDA's net margin of 5.53%. Bombardier's return on equity of 4.73% beat MDA's return on equity.
Summary
MDA beats Bombardier on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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