BBU.UN vs. CJT, EIF, MDA, BDGI, WTE, RUS, MTL, SIS, AFN, and BLDP
Should you be buying Brookfield Business Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Business Partners include Cargojet (CJT), Exchange Income (EIF), MDA (MDA), Badger Infrastructure Solutions (BDGI), Westshore Terminals Investment (WTE), Russel Metals (RUS), Mullen Group (MTL), Savaria (SIS), Ag Growth International (AFN), and Ballard Power Systems (BLDP). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Brookfield Business Partners (TSE:BBU.UN) and Cargojet (TSE:CJT) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and earnings.
Cargojet received 214 more outperform votes than Brookfield Business Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.19% of users gave Brookfield Business Partners an outperform vote while only 63.81% of users gave Cargojet an outperform vote.
Brookfield Business Partners has a beta of 1.42, meaning that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cargojet has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Brookfield Business Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Cargojet. Brookfield Business Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cargojet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Brookfield Business Partners pays an annual dividend of C$0.34 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Cargojet pays an annual dividend of C$1.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Brookfield Business Partners pays out 3.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cargojet pays out 57.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Brookfield Business Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
79.1% of Brookfield Business Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.2% of Cargojet shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.0% of Brookfield Business Partners shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Cargojet shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Cargojet had 3 more articles in the media than Brookfield Business Partners. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Cargojet and 0 mentions for Brookfield Business Partners. Cargojet's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Brookfield Business Partners' score of 0.00 indicating that Cargojet is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Brookfield Business Partners presently has a consensus target price of C$33.00, indicating a potential upside of 22.40%. Cargojet has a consensus target price of C$148.20, indicating a potential upside of 33.69%. Given Cargojet's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Cargojet is more favorable than Brookfield Business Partners.
Cargojet has a net margin of 4.25% compared to Brookfield Business Partners' net margin of 0.88%. Brookfield Business Partners' return on equity of 20.44% beat Cargojet's return on equity.
Summary
Brookfield Business Partners beats Cargojet on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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