SIS vs. BLDP, ATS, AFN, MTL, ARE, BDT, AND, WTE, BDGI, and WJX
Should you be buying Savaria stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Savaria include Ballard Power Systems (BLDP), ATS (ATS), Ag Growth International (AFN), Mullen Group (MTL), Aecon Group (ARE), Bird Construction (BDT), Andlauer Healthcare Group (AND), Westshore Terminals Investment (WTE), Badger Infrastructure Solutions (BDGI), and Wajax (WJX). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Ballard Power Systems (TSE:BLDP) and Savaria (TSE:SIS) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Savaria has higher revenue and earnings than Ballard Power Systems. Ballard Power Systems is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Savaria, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Savaria has a consensus price target of C$21.64, indicating a potential upside of 27.91%. Given Ballard Power Systems' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Savaria is more favorable than Ballard Power Systems.
In the previous week, Ballard Power Systems and Ballard Power Systems both had 3 articles in the media. Ballard Power Systems' average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Savaria's score of -0.52 indicating that Savaria is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Savaria has a net margin of 4.52% compared to Savaria's net margin of -173.61%. Ballard Power Systems' return on equity of 7.55% beat Savaria's return on equity.
33.0% of Ballard Power Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.0% of Savaria shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.6% of Ballard Power Systems shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 19.9% of Savaria shares are owned by 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.
Ballard Power Systems has a beta of 1.69, meaning that its stock price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Savaria has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Savaria received 273 more outperform votes than Ballard Power Systems when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.70% of users gave Savaria an outperform vote while only 14.29% of users gave Ballard Power Systems an outperform vote.
Summary
Savaria beats Ballard Power Systems on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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