BDT vs. ARE, BDGI, BLDP, AFN, SIS, AND, MTL, WJX, BBD.A, and DBM
Should you be buying Bird Construction stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bird Construction include Aecon Group (ARE), Badger Infrastructure Solutions (BDGI), Ballard Power Systems (BLDP), Ag Growth International (AFN), Savaria (SIS), Andlauer Healthcare Group (AND), Mullen Group (MTL), Wajax (WJX), Bombardier (BBD.A), and Doman Building Materials Group (DBM). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Bird Construction (TSE:BDT) and Aecon Group (TSE:ARE) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, community ranking, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation and media sentiment.
Aecon Group received 187 more outperform votes than Bird Construction when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.77% of users gave Aecon Group an outperform vote while only 55.31% of users gave Bird Construction an outperform vote.
Aecon Group has higher revenue and earnings than Bird Construction. Aecon Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bird Construction, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
30.1% of Bird Construction shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.8% of Aecon Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.1% of Bird Construction shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Aecon Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Aecon Group has a net margin of 3.49% compared to Bird Construction's net margin of 2.56%. Bird Construction's return on equity of 24.03% beat Aecon Group's return on equity.
Bird Construction currently has a consensus price target of C$21.21, suggesting a potential upside of 11.30%. Aecon Group has a consensus price target of C$19.17, suggesting a potential upside of 14.38%. Given Aecon Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Aecon Group is more favorable than Bird Construction.
Bird Construction pays an annual dividend of C$0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Aecon Group pays an annual dividend of C$0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Bird Construction pays out 42.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Aecon Group pays out 36.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Aecon Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Bird Construction has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aecon Group has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Aecon Group had 34 more articles in the media than Bird Construction. MarketBeat recorded 36 mentions for Aecon Group and 2 mentions for Bird Construction. Bird Construction's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Aecon Group's score of 0.49 indicating that Bird Construction is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Aecon Group beats Bird Construction on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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