BBU vs. IBP, TMHC, IESC, ROAD, ECG, GRBK, DFH, CCS, LGIH, and LMB
Should you be buying Brookfield Business Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Business Partners include Installed Building Products (IBP), Taylor Morrison Home (TMHC), IES (IESC), Construction Partners (ROAD), Everus Construction Group (ECG), Green Brick Partners (GRBK), Dream Finders Homes (DFH), Century Communities (CCS), LGI Homes (LGIH), and Limbach (LMB). These companies are all part of the "construction" industry.
Brookfield Business Partners vs. Its Competitors
Brookfield Business Partners (NYSE:BBU) and Installed Building Products (NYSE:IBP) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings, risk and dividends.
Brookfield Business Partners currently has a consensus price target of $32.50, suggesting a potential upside of 20.37%. Installed Building Products has a consensus price target of $217.36, suggesting a potential downside of 18.92%. Given Brookfield Business Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Brookfield Business Partners is more favorable than Installed Building Products.
Brookfield Business Partners has a beta of 1.34, indicating that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Installed Building Products has a beta of 1.76, indicating that its stock price is 76% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Installed Building Products had 13 more articles in the media than Brookfield Business Partners. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Installed Building Products and 1 mentions for Brookfield Business Partners. Installed Building Products' average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat Brookfield Business Partners' score of 0.70 indicating that Installed Building Products is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Brookfield Business Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Installed Building Products pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Brookfield Business Partners pays out -192.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Installed Building Products pays out 16.5% 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. Brookfield Business Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Installed Building Products has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Brookfield Business Partners. Brookfield Business Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Installed Building Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
85.0% of Brookfield Business Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.6% of Installed Building Products shares are held by institutional investors. 16.2% of Installed Building Products shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Installed Building Products has a net margin of 8.45% compared to Brookfield Business Partners' net margin of 3.38%. Installed Building Products' return on equity of 60.27% beat Brookfield Business Partners' return on equity.
Summary
Installed Building Products beats Brookfield Business Partners on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:BBU) was last updated on 9/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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