BBD.B vs. MDA, CAE, ATS, FTT, AC, SES, RUS, EIF, BBU.UN, and CJT
Should you be buying Bombardier, Inc. Class B stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bombardier, Inc. Class B include MDA (MDA), CAE (CAE), ATS (ATS), Finning International (FTT), Air Canada (AC), Secure Energy Services (SES), Russel Metals (RUS), Exchange Income (EIF), Brookfield Business Partners (BBU.UN), and Cargojet (CJT). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Bombardier, Inc. Class B (TSE:BBD.B) and MDA (TSE:MDA) are both industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, valuation and community ranking.
Bombardier, Inc. Class B presently has a consensus target price of C$81.38, suggesting a potential upside of 42.21%. MDA has a consensus target price of C$14.88, suggesting a potential upside of 2.80%. Given Bombardier, Inc. Class B's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Bombardier, Inc. Class B is more favorable than MDA.
Bombardier, Inc. Class B received 585 more outperform votes than MDA when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.22% of users gave MDA an outperform vote while only 56.82% of users gave Bombardier, Inc. Class B an outperform vote.
Bombardier, Inc. Class B has a beta of 2.96, indicating that its share price is 196% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MDA has a beta of 0.12, indicating that its share price is 88% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, MDA had 12 more articles in the media than Bombardier, Inc. Class B. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for MDA and 3 mentions for Bombardier, Inc. Class B. Bombardier, Inc. Class B's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat MDA's score of 0.15 indicating that Bombardier, Inc. Class B is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Bombardier, Inc. Class B has higher revenue and earnings than MDA. Bombardier, Inc. Class B is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MDA, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
18.6% of Bombardier, Inc. Class B shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.0% of MDA shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Bombardier, Inc. Class B shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 13.2% of MDA shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
MDA has a net margin of 6.04% compared to Bombardier, Inc. Class B's net margin of 5.53%. MDA's return on equity of 4.73% beat Bombardier, Inc. Class B's return on equity.
Summary
Bombardier, Inc. Class B beats MDA on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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