BDI vs. ISV, DIV, GDI, MAL, ALC, CHR, KBL, HRX, DXT, and CGY
Should you be buying Black Diamond Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Black Diamond Group include Information Services (ISV), Diversified Royalty (DIV), GDI Integrated Facility Services (GDI), Magellan Aerospace (MAL), Algoma Central (ALC), Chorus Aviation (CHR), K-Bro Linen (KBL), Héroux-Devtek (HRX), Dexterra Group (DXT), and Calian Group (CGY). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Information Services (TSE:ISV) and Black Diamond Group (TSE:BDI) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, valuation, earnings and community ranking.
33.0% of Information Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.2% of Black Diamond Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 30.2% of Information Services shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 24.2% of Black Diamond Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Black Diamond Group has higher revenue and earnings than Information Services. Black Diamond Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Information Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Information Services presently has a consensus target price of C$31.15, suggesting a potential upside of 17.11%. Black Diamond Group has a consensus target price of C$11.13, suggesting a potential upside of 23.61%. Given Information Services' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Black Diamond Group is more favorable than Information Services.
Information Services has a net margin of 11.68% compared to Information Services' net margin of 7.72%. Black Diamond Group's return on equity of 15.44% beat Information Services' return on equity.
Information Services has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Black Diamond Group has a beta of 1.73, indicating that its stock price is 73% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Information Services pays an annual dividend of C$0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Black Diamond Group pays an annual dividend of C$0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Information Services pays out 66.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Black Diamond Group pays out 24.5% 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.
Black Diamond Group received 216 more outperform votes than Information Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.76% of users gave Black Diamond Group an outperform vote while only 53.81% of users gave Information Services an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Information Services and Information Services both had 3 articles in the media. Black Diamond Group's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat Information Services' score of 0.29 indicating that Information Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Information Services beats Black Diamond Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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