BDT vs. ARE, BDGI, BLDP, AND, AFN, SIS, BBD.A, DBM, WJX, and MTL
Should you be buying Bird Construction stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bird Construction include Aecon Group (ARE), Badger Infrastructure Solutions (BDGI), Ballard Power Systems (BLDP), Andlauer Healthcare Group (AND), Ag Growth International (AFN), Savaria (SIS), Bombardier (BBD.A), Doman Building Materials Group (DBM), Wajax (WJX), and Mullen Group (MTL). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Aecon Group (TSE:ARE) and Bird Construction (TSE:BDT) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.
In the previous week, Aecon Group had 10 more articles in the media than Bird Construction. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Aecon Group and 2 mentions for Bird Construction. Bird Construction's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat Aecon Group's score of 0.17 indicating that Aecon Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Aecon Group has higher revenue and earnings than Bird Construction. Aecon Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bird Construction, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
17.8% of Aecon Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.1% of Bird Construction shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Aecon Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Bird Construction shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Aecon Group has a net margin of 3.49% compared to Aecon Group's net margin of 2.56%. Aecon Group's return on equity of 24.03% beat Bird Construction's return on equity.
Aecon Group has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bird Construction has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Aecon Group currently has a consensus target price of C$18.23, indicating a potential upside of 9.08%. Bird Construction has a consensus target price of C$20.06, indicating a potential upside of 3.10%. Given Bird Construction's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Aecon Group is more favorable than Bird Construction.
Aecon Group pays an annual dividend of C$0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Bird Construction pays an annual dividend of C$0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Aecon Group pays out 36.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bird Construction pays out 42.1% 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.
Aecon Group received 185 more outperform votes than Bird Construction when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.30% of users gave Aecon Group an outperform vote while only 55.31% of users gave Bird Construction an outperform vote.
Summary
Aecon Group beats Bird Construction on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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