BWMN vs. LMB, WLDN, HCKT, MTRX, CECO, PESI, III, SLNG, UGRO, and MEG
Should you be buying Bowman Consulting Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bowman Consulting Group include Limbach (LMB), Willdan Group (WLDN), The Hackett Group (HCKT), Matrix Service (MTRX), CECO Environmental (CECO), Perma-Fix Environmental Services (PESI), Information Services Group (III), Stabilis Solutions (SLNG), urban-gro (UGRO), and Montrose Environmental Group (MEG).
Bowman Consulting Group (NASDAQ:BWMN) and Limbach (NASDAQ:LMB) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.
Limbach has a net margin of 4.02% compared to Bowman Consulting Group's net margin of -1.96%. Limbach's return on equity of 18.87% beat Bowman Consulting Group's return on equity.
Bowman Consulting Group presently has a consensus price target of $46.33, indicating a potential upside of 43.09%. Limbach has a consensus price target of $39.00, indicating a potential downside of 18.19%. Given Bowman Consulting Group's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Bowman Consulting Group is more favorable than Limbach.
Limbach has higher revenue and earnings than Bowman Consulting Group. Bowman Consulting Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Limbach, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
63.2% of Bowman Consulting Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.8% of Limbach shares are held by institutional investors. 20.4% of Bowman Consulting Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.2% of Limbach shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Limbach received 190 more outperform votes than Bowman Consulting Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.97% of users gave Bowman Consulting Group an outperform vote while only 55.76% of users gave Limbach an outperform vote.
Bowman Consulting Group has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Limbach has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Bowman Consulting Group had 4 more articles in the media than Limbach. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Bowman Consulting Group and 6 mentions for Limbach. Limbach's average media sentiment score of 0.23 beat Bowman Consulting Group's score of -0.25 indicating that Limbach is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Limbach beats Bowman Consulting Group on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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