BDGI vs. ARE, BDT, WTE, MDA, CJT, MTL, BBU.UN, SIS, AFN, and BLDP
Should you be buying Badger Infrastructure Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Badger Infrastructure Solutions include Aecon Group (ARE), Bird Construction (BDT), Westshore Terminals Investment (WTE), MDA (MDA), Cargojet (CJT), Mullen Group (MTL), Brookfield Business Partners (BBU.UN), Savaria (SIS), Ag Growth International (AFN), and Ballard Power Systems (BLDP). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Badger Infrastructure Solutions (TSE:BDGI) and Aecon Group (TSE:ARE) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Badger Infrastructure Solutions has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aecon Group has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Aecon Group received 474 more outperform votes than Badger Infrastructure Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.30% of users gave Aecon Group an outperform vote while only 26.00% of users gave Badger Infrastructure Solutions an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Aecon Group had 12 more articles in the media than Badger Infrastructure Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Aecon Group and 0 mentions for Badger Infrastructure Solutions. Aecon Group's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat Badger Infrastructure Solutions' score of 0.00 indicating that Aecon Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
55.3% of Badger Infrastructure Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.8% of Aecon Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Badger Infrastructure Solutions shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Aecon Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Badger Infrastructure Solutions has a net margin of 6.11% compared to Aecon Group's net margin of 3.49%. Badger Infrastructure Solutions' return on equity of 17.86% beat Aecon Group's return on equity.
Badger Infrastructure Solutions pays an annual dividend of C$0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Aecon Group pays an annual dividend of C$0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Badger Infrastructure Solutions pays out 43.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Aecon Group pays out 36.2% 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. Aecon Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Badger Infrastructure Solutions presently has a consensus target price of C$53.11, suggesting a potential upside of 12.10%. Aecon Group has a consensus target price of C$18.23, suggesting a potential upside of 6.10%. Given Badger Infrastructure Solutions' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Badger Infrastructure Solutions is more favorable than Aecon Group.
Aecon Group has higher revenue and earnings than Badger Infrastructure Solutions. Aecon Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Badger Infrastructure Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Aecon Group beats Badger Infrastructure Solutions on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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