BBU vs. BLD, ROAD, TMHC, IESC, IBP, ECG, GRBK, DFH, CCS, and LMB
Should you be buying Brookfield Business Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Business Partners include TopBuild (BLD), Construction Partners (ROAD), Taylor Morrison Home (TMHC), IES (IESC), Installed Building Products (IBP), Everus (ECG), Green Brick Partners (GRBK), Dream Finders Homes (DFH), Century Communities (CCS), and Limbach (LMB). These companies are all part of the "construction" industry.
Brookfield Business Partners vs. Its Competitors
TopBuild (NYSE:BLD) and Brookfield Business Partners (NYSE:BBU) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.
TopBuild presently has a consensus target price of $380.22, indicating a potential upside of 27.24%. Brookfield Business Partners has a consensus target price of $31.00, indicating a potential upside of 24.55%. Given TopBuild's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe TopBuild is more favorable than Brookfield Business Partners.
TopBuild has a beta of 1.62, indicating that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookfield Business Partners has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
TopBuild received 176 more outperform votes than Brookfield Business Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.36% of users gave Brookfield Business Partners an outperform vote while only 68.62% of users gave TopBuild an outperform vote.
In the previous week, TopBuild had 4 more articles in the media than Brookfield Business Partners. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for TopBuild and 0 mentions for Brookfield Business Partners. TopBuild's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Brookfield Business Partners' score of 0.00 indicating that TopBuild is being referred to more favorably in the media.
95.7% of TopBuild shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.0% of Brookfield Business Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of TopBuild shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
TopBuild has a net margin of 11.66% compared to Brookfield Business Partners' net margin of 2.20%. TopBuild's return on equity of 26.40% beat Brookfield Business Partners' return on equity.
TopBuild has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Brookfield Business Partners. Brookfield Business Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TopBuild, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
TopBuild beats Brookfield Business Partners on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NYSE:BBU) was last updated on 6/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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