BAB vs. BBY, HILS, MGNS, KLR, RNWH, IDS, ROR, WIZZ, QQ, and SRP
Should you be buying Babcock International Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Babcock International Group include Balfour Beatty (BBY), Hill & Smith (HILS), Morgan Sindall Group (MGNS), Keller Group (KLR), Renew (RNWH), International Distributions Services (IDS), Rotork (ROR), Wizz Air (WIZZ), QinetiQ Group (QQ), and Serco Group (SRP). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Babcock International Group (LON:BAB) and Balfour Beatty (LON:BBY) are both industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, valuation and earnings.
Balfour Beatty has higher revenue and earnings than Babcock International Group. Balfour Beatty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Babcock International Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Babcock International Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Balfour Beatty pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Babcock International Group pays out 5,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Balfour Beatty pays out 3,428.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Balfour Beatty is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Balfour Beatty has a net margin of 2.47% compared to Babcock International Group's net margin of 0.74%. Balfour Beatty's return on equity of 14.98% beat Babcock International Group's return on equity.
75.4% of Babcock International Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.8% of Balfour Beatty shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Babcock International Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Balfour Beatty shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Babcock International Group currently has a consensus price target of GBX 526.80, indicating a potential upside of 3.29%. Given Babcock International Group's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Babcock International Group is more favorable than Balfour Beatty.
Babcock International Group has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Balfour Beatty has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Babcock International Group had 4 more articles in the media than Balfour Beatty. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Babcock International Group and 1 mentions for Balfour Beatty. Balfour Beatty's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Babcock International Group's score of 0.57 indicating that Balfour Beatty is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Babcock International Group received 187 more outperform votes than Balfour Beatty when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.05% of users gave Babcock International Group an outperform vote while only 65.42% of users gave Balfour Beatty an outperform vote.
Summary
Babcock International Group beats Balfour Beatty on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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