BCO vs. BRZE, PAGS, EXPO, CRVL, DNB, CBZ, NSP, CNXC, MAN, and CXT
Should you be buying Brink's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brink's include Braze (BRZE), PagSeguro Digital (PAGS), Exponent (EXPO), CorVel (CRVL), Dun & Bradstreet (DNB), CBIZ (CBZ), Insperity (NSP), Concentrix (CNXC), ManpowerGroup (MAN), and Crane NXT (CXT). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Braze (NASDAQ:BRZE) and Brink's (NYSE:BCO) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Braze has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brink's has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Brink's received 375 more outperform votes than Braze when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.24% of users gave Brink's an outperform vote while only 52.71% of users gave Braze an outperform vote.
Brink's has a net margin of 1.77% compared to Brink's' net margin of -27.44%. Braze's return on equity of 55.36% beat Brink's' return on equity.
In the previous week, Braze had 5 more articles in the media than Brink's. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Braze and 4 mentions for Brink's. Braze's average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat Brink's' score of 0.59 indicating that Brink's is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Braze presently has a consensus price target of $63.41, indicating a potential upside of 53.99%. Brink's has a consensus price target of $106.50, indicating a potential upside of 22.23%. Given Brink's' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Braze is more favorable than Brink's.
Brink's has higher revenue and earnings than Braze. Braze is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brink's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
90.5% of Braze shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.0% of Brink's shares are owned by institutional investors. 26.5% of Braze shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Brink's shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Brink's beats Braze on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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