BBU vs. AMRC, AGX, LMB, BBCP, MTRX, SMXT, WLGS, CSCW, BLD, and FOUR
Should you be buying Brookfield Business Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Business Partners include Ameresco (AMRC), Argan (AGX), Limbach (LMB), Concrete Pumping (BBCP), Matrix Service (MTRX), SolarMax Technology (SMXT), WANG & LEE GROUP (WLGS), Color Star Technology (CSCW), TopBuild (BLD), and Shift4 Payments (FOUR).
Brookfield Business Partners (NYSE:BBU) and Ameresco (NYSE:AMRC) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, risk, valuation and dividends.
Brookfield Business Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Ameresco. Brookfield Business Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ameresco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Brookfield Business Partners has a beta of 1.47, suggesting that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ameresco has a beta of 1.78, suggesting that its stock price is 78% more volatile than the S&P 500.
85.0% of Brookfield Business Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.2% of Ameresco shares are held by institutional investors. 42.0% of Ameresco shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Ameresco had 2 more articles in the media than Brookfield Business Partners. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Ameresco and 7 mentions for Brookfield Business Partners. Ameresco's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Brookfield Business Partners' score of 0.26 indicating that Ameresco is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Brookfield Business Partners has a net margin of 7.08% compared to Ameresco's net margin of 4.17%. Brookfield Business Partners' return on equity of 21.64% beat Ameresco's return on equity.
Brookfield Business Partners presently has a consensus target price of $30.33, suggesting a potential upside of 48.69%. Ameresco has a consensus target price of $40.85, suggesting a potential upside of 32.23%. Given Brookfield Business Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Brookfield Business Partners is more favorable than Ameresco.
Ameresco received 114 more outperform votes than Brookfield Business Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.93% of users gave Brookfield Business Partners an outperform vote while only 68.86% of users gave Ameresco an outperform vote.
Summary
Brookfield Business Partners and Ameresco tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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