BW vs. BNRG, MEI, KODK, YRD, SOHU, SKYT, NTGR, BBAI, MCG, and CCSI
Should you be buying Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises include Brenmiller Energy (BNRG), Methode Electronics (MEI), Eastman Kodak (KODK), Yiren Digital (YRD), Sohu.com (SOHU), SkyWater Technology (SKYT), NETGEAR (NTGR), BigBear.ai (BBAI), Membership Collective Group (MCG), and Consensus Cloud Solutions (CCSI).
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises (NYSE:BW) and Brenmiller Energy (NASDAQ:BNRG) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings and community ranking.
83.2% of Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.2% of Brenmiller Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.3% of Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 38.1% of Brenmiller Energy shares are owned by company 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.
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises has a beta of 1.41, indicating that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brenmiller Energy has a beta of -0.65, indicating that its share price is 165% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Brenmiller Energy had 4 more articles in the media than Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Brenmiller Energy and 1 mentions for Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises. Brenmiller Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises' score of 0.94 indicating that Brenmiller Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises presently has a consensus target price of $4.50, suggesting a potential upside of 284.62%. Given Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises' higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises is more favorable than Brenmiller Energy.
Brenmiller Energy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises. Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brenmiller Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Brenmiller Energy has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises' net margin of -20.57%.
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises received 370 more outperform votes than Brenmiller Energy when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Brenmiller Energy beats Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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