BBU.UN vs. DIV, AEF, DE, OIC, SIQ, GTII, AC, FTT, ATS, and ATA
Should you be buying Brookfield Business Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Business Partners include Diversified Royalty (DIV), Acasta Enterprises (AEF), Decisive Dividend (DE), Origin Gold Co. (OIC.V) (OIC), SiQ Mountain Industries (SIQ), Green Thumb Industries (GTII), Air Canada (AC), Finning International (FTT), ATS (ATS), and ATS Automation Tooling Systems (ATA). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Brookfield Business Partners (TSE:BBU.UN) and Diversified Royalty (TSE:DIV) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends and valuation.
Diversified Royalty received 69 more outperform votes than Brookfield Business Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.52% of users gave Brookfield Business Partners an outperform vote while only 68.15% of users gave Diversified Royalty an outperform vote.
Brookfield Business Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Diversified Royalty. Brookfield Business Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Diversified Royalty, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
79.9% of Brookfield Business Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.9% of Diversified Royalty shares are held by institutional investors. 4.0% of Brookfield Business Partners shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Diversified Royalty shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Diversified Royalty has a net margin of 54.93% compared to Brookfield Business Partners' net margin of 0.89%. Brookfield Business Partners' return on equity of 20.30% beat Diversified Royalty's return on equity.
Brookfield Business Partners pays an annual dividend of C$0.34 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Diversified Royalty pays an annual dividend of C$0.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.2%. Brookfield Business Partners pays out 4.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Diversified Royalty pays out 113.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Brookfield Business Partners has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Diversified Royalty has a beta of 1.59, meaning that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Brookfield Business Partners presently has a consensus price target of C$32.00, suggesting a potential upside of 24.66%. Diversified Royalty has a consensus price target of C$3.47, suggesting a potential upside of 26.98%. Given Diversified Royalty's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Diversified Royalty is more favorable than Brookfield Business Partners.
In the previous week, Diversified Royalty had 1 more articles in the media than Brookfield Business Partners. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Diversified Royalty and 1 mentions for Brookfield Business Partners. Diversified Royalty's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Brookfield Business Partners' score of 0.59 indicating that Diversified Royalty is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Diversified Royalty beats Brookfield Business Partners on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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