BW vs. BNRG, CLFD, KE, MITK, LASR, BAND, AEHR, MGIC, SMWB, and CASS
Should you be buying Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises include Brenmiller Energy (BNRG), Clearfield (CLFD), Kimball Electronics (KE), Mitek Systems (MITK), nLIGHT (LASR), Bandwidth (BAND), Aehr Test Systems (AEHR), Magic Software Enterprises (MGIC), Similarweb (SMWB), and Cass Information Systems (CASS).
Brenmiller Energy (NASDAQ:BNRG) and Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises (NYSE:BW) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises has a consensus price target of $4.50, suggesting a potential upside of 177.78%. Given Brenmiller Energy's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises is more favorable than Brenmiller Energy.
In the previous week, Brenmiller Energy had 1 more articles in the media than Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Brenmiller Energy and 1 mentions for Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises. Brenmiller Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises' score of 0.51 indicating that Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Brenmiller Energy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises. Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brenmiller Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Brenmiller Energy has a beta of -0.85, suggesting that its stock price is 185% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises has a beta of 1.72, suggesting that its stock price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Brenmiller Energy has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Brenmiller Energy's net margin of -20.57%.
13.2% of Brenmiller Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.2% of Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises shares are held by institutional investors. 38.1% of Brenmiller Energy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises received 370 more outperform votes than Brenmiller Energy when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises beats Brenmiller Energy on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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