BBY vs. BAB, HILS, MGNS, KLR, RNWH, KIE, GFRD, PTSG, SFR, and COST
Should you be buying Balfour Beatty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Balfour Beatty include Babcock International Group (BAB), Hill & Smith (HILS), Morgan Sindall Group (MGNS), Keller Group (KLR), Renew (RNWH), Kier Group (KIE), Galliford Try (GFRD), Premier Technical Services Group (PTSG), Severfield (SFR), and Costain Group (COST). These companies are all part of the "engineering & construction" industry.
Babcock International Group (LON:BAB) and Balfour Beatty (LON:BBY) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, community ranking 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 has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Balfour Beatty has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
75.7% of Babcock International Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.6% of Balfour Beatty shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Babcock International Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Balfour Beatty shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Babcock International Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 570.80, indicating a potential upside of 7.70%. Given Balfour Beatty's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Babcock International Group is more favorable than Balfour Beatty.
In the previous week, Balfour Beatty had 1 more articles in the media than Babcock International Group. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Balfour Beatty and 5 mentions for Babcock International Group. Balfour Beatty's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat Babcock International Group's score of 0.33 indicating that Babcock International Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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 2.8%. 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 Balfour Beatty's net margin of 0.74%. Babcock International Group's return on equity of 14.98% beat Balfour Beatty's return on equity.
Babcock International Group received 189 more outperform votes than Balfour Beatty when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.03% 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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