ACM vs. CLH, TTEK, APG, STN, BWXT, PWR, EME, FIX, KBR, and MTZ
Should you be buying AECOM stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AECOM include Clean Harbors (CLH), Tetra Tech (TTEK), APi Group (APG), Stantec (STN), BWX Technologies (BWXT), Quanta Services (PWR), EMCOR Group (EME), Comfort Systems USA (FIX), KBR (KBR), and MasTec (MTZ).
Clean Harbors (NYSE:CLH) and AECOM (NYSE:ACM) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership and risk.
Clean Harbors has a beta of 1.21, meaning that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AECOM has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Clean Harbors presently has a consensus price target of $218.40, suggesting a potential downside of 2.60%. AECOM has a consensus price target of $101.88, suggesting a potential upside of 12.23%. Given Clean Harbors' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe AECOM is more favorable than Clean Harbors.
90.4% of Clean Harbors shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.4% of AECOM shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.9% of Clean Harbors shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of AECOM shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Clean Harbors has a net margin of 6.85% compared to Clean Harbors' net margin of -0.09%. Clean Harbors' return on equity of 22.73% beat AECOM's return on equity.
Clean Harbors received 49 more outperform votes than AECOM when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.48% of users gave Clean Harbors an outperform vote while only 64.21% of users gave AECOM an outperform vote.
In the previous week, AECOM had 12 more articles in the media than Clean Harbors. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for AECOM and 5 mentions for Clean Harbors. AECOM's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Clean Harbors' score of 0.60 indicating that Clean Harbors is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Clean Harbors has higher earnings, but lower revenue than AECOM. AECOM is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Clean Harbors, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Clean Harbors beats AECOM on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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