ARE vs. BDT, BDGI, MTL, AFN, SIS, BBD.A, BLDP, AND, CGY, and HRX
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), Mullen Group (MTL), Ag Growth International (AFN), Savaria (SIS), Bombardier (BBD.A), Ballard Power Systems (BLDP), Andlauer Healthcare Group (AND), Calian Group (CGY), and Héroux-Devtek (HRX). 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 valuation, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment and dividends.
Aecon Group has a net margin of 3.77% 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.
Bird Construction pays an annual dividend of C$0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Aecon Group pays an annual dividend of C$0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Bird Construction pays out 42.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Aecon Group pays out 35.3% 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.
Aecon Group received 182 more outperform votes than Bird Construction when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.77% of users gave Aecon Group an outperform vote while only 55.52% of users gave Bird Construction an outperform vote.
Bird Construction has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aecon Group has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Bird Construction presently has a consensus target price of C$23.71, suggesting a potential upside of 12.34%. Aecon Group has a consensus target price of C$19.17, suggesting a potential upside of 14.93%. Given Bird Construction's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Aecon Group is more favorable than Bird Construction.
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.
In the previous week, Bird Construction had 41 more articles in the media than Aecon Group. MarketBeat recorded 43 mentions for Bird Construction and 2 mentions for Aecon Group. Bird Construction's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Aecon Group's score of 0.69 indicating that Aecon Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
31.1% of Bird Construction shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.7% 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 hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Aecon Group beats Bird Construction on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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