MDA vs. BBD.A, HRX, MAL, BBD.B, BDGI, CJT, WTE, BBU.UN, MTL, and EIF
Should you be buying MDA stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MDA include Bombardier (BBD.A), Héroux-Devtek (HRX), Magellan Aerospace (MAL), Bombardier, Inc. Class B (BBD.B), Badger Infrastructure Solutions (BDGI), Cargojet (CJT), Westshore Terminals Investment (WTE), Brookfield Business Partners (BBU.UN), Mullen Group (MTL), and Exchange Income (EIF). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
MDA (TSE:MDA) and Bombardier (TSE:BBD.A) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment and risk.
MDA has a beta of 0.12, meaning that its stock price is 88% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bombardier has a beta of 2.96, meaning that its stock price is 196% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Bombardier received 40 more outperform votes than MDA when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.01% of users gave Bombardier an outperform vote while only 59.22% of users gave MDA an outperform vote.
In the previous week, MDA had 8 more articles in the media than Bombardier. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for MDA and 2 mentions for Bombardier. MDA's average media sentiment score of 0.15 beat Bombardier's score of 0.00 indicating that MDA is being referred to more favorably in the media.
MDA has a net margin of 6.04% compared to Bombardier's net margin of 5.53%. MDA's return on equity of 4.73% beat Bombardier's return on equity.
26.0% of MDA shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.0% of Bombardier shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.2% of MDA shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 84.8% of Bombardier shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
MDA currently has a consensus price target of C$14.88, suggesting a potential upside of 0.98%. Bombardier has a consensus price target of C$60.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1.87%. Given Bombardier's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Bombardier is more favorable than MDA.
Bombardier has higher revenue and earnings than MDA. Bombardier is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MDA, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
MDA and Bombardier tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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