BBU vs. BBCP, SCS, ADV, AVPT, OPEN, MTTR, MAX, MEG, ZKH, and STER
Should you be buying Brookfield Business Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Business Partners include Concrete Pumping (BBCP), Steelcase (SCS), Advantage Solutions (ADV), AvePoint (AVPT), Opendoor Technologies (OPEN), Matterport (MTTR), MediaAlpha (MAX), Montrose Environmental Group (MEG), ZKH Group (ZKH), and Sterling Check (STER). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Brookfield Business Partners (NYSE:BBU) and Concrete Pumping (NASDAQ:BBCP) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, risk and profitability.
Brookfield Business Partners currently has a consensus target price of $30.33, indicating a potential upside of 60.24%. Concrete Pumping has a consensus target price of $8.50, indicating a potential upside of 27.06%. Given Brookfield Business Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Brookfield Business Partners is more favorable than Concrete Pumping.
Brookfield Business Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Concrete Pumping. Brookfield Business Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Concrete Pumping, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Brookfield Business Partners has a net margin of 7.08% compared to Concrete Pumping's net margin of 4.81%. Brookfield Business Partners' return on equity of 21.72% beat Concrete Pumping's return on equity.
Brookfield Business Partners has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Concrete Pumping has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Brookfield Business Partners had 12 more articles in the media than Concrete Pumping. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Brookfield Business Partners and 1 mentions for Concrete Pumping. Brookfield Business Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Concrete Pumping's score of 0.00 indicating that Brookfield Business Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.
85.0% of Brookfield Business Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.2% of Concrete Pumping shares are held by institutional investors. 27.4% of Concrete Pumping shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Brookfield Business Partners received 162 more outperform votes than Concrete Pumping when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.86% of users gave Brookfield Business Partners an outperform vote while only 57.08% of users gave Concrete Pumping an outperform vote.
Summary
Brookfield Business Partners beats Concrete Pumping on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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