BCO vs. ADT, EXPD, CHRW, HUBG, FWRD, CRGO, GVH, SGLY, JYD, and CPAY
Should you be buying Brink's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brink's include ADT (ADT), Expeditors International of Washington (EXPD), C.H. Robinson Worldwide (CHRW), Hub Group (HUBG), Forward Air (FWRD), Freightos (CRGO), Globavend (GVH), Singularity Future Technology (SGLY), Jayud Global Logistics (JYD), and Corpay (CPAY).
Brink's (NYSE:BCO) and ADT (NYSE:ADT) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, dividends and valuation.
In the previous week, Brink's had 4 more articles in the media than ADT. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Brink's and 2 mentions for ADT. ADT's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Brink's' score of 0.92 indicating that ADT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Brink's has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ADT has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ADT has a net margin of 12.81% compared to Brink's' net margin of 2.46%. Brink's' return on equity of 59.84% beat ADT's return on equity.
Brink's pays an annual dividend of $0.97 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. ADT pays an annual dividend of $0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Brink's pays out 37.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ADT pays out 31.4% 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. ADT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Brink's presently has a consensus target price of $106.50, suggesting a potential upside of 4.72%. ADT has a consensus target price of $8.43, suggesting a potential upside of 14.74%. Given ADT's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe ADT is more favorable than Brink's.
95.0% of Brink's shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.2% of ADT shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Brink's shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of ADT shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
ADT has higher revenue and earnings than Brink's. ADT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brink's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Brink's received 30 more outperform votes than ADT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.29% of users gave Brink's an outperform vote while only 64.19% of users gave ADT an outperform vote.
Summary
Brink's and ADT tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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