BBD.B vs. CAE, AC, FTT, ATS, EFN, TIH, SES, RUS, EIF, and BBU.UN
Should you be buying Bombardier, Inc. Class B stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bombardier, Inc. Class B include CAE (CAE), Air Canada (AC), Finning International (FTT), ATS (ATS), Element Fleet Management (EFN), Toromont Industries (TIH), Secure Energy Services (SES), Russel Metals (RUS), Exchange Income (EIF), and Brookfield Business Partners (BBU.UN). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
CAE (TSE:CAE) and Bombardier, Inc. Class B (TSE:BBD.B) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, risk and dividends.
CAE currently has a consensus target price of C$31.70, suggesting a potential upside of 25.40%. Bombardier, Inc. Class B has a consensus target price of C$90.00, suggesting a potential downside of 0.46%. Given Bombardier, Inc. Class B's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe CAE is more favorable than Bombardier, Inc. Class B.
CAE has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Bombardier, Inc. Class B. CAE is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bombardier, Inc. Class B, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CAE has a net margin of 6.13% compared to CAE's net margin of 3.21%. Bombardier, Inc. Class B's return on equity of 6.24% beat CAE's return on equity.
CAE has a beta of 1.92, indicating that its share price is 92% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bombardier, Inc. Class B has a beta of 2.99, indicating that its share price is 199% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, CAE had 27 more articles in the media than Bombardier, Inc. Class B. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for CAE and 13 mentions for Bombardier, Inc. Class B. CAE's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Bombardier, Inc. Class B's score of -0.38 indicating that Bombardier, Inc. Class B is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
76.4% of CAE shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.4% of Bombardier, Inc. Class B shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of CAE shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Bombardier, Inc. Class B shares are held by company 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.
Bombardier, Inc. Class B received 306 more outperform votes than CAE when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.40% of users gave CAE an outperform vote while only 57.13% of users gave Bombardier, Inc. Class B an outperform vote.
Summary
Bombardier, Inc. Class B beats CAE on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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