ACM vs. CLH, TTEK, APG, STN, BWXT, PWR, EME, FIX, MTZ, and KBR
Should you be buying AECOM stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AECOM include Clean Harbors (CLH), Tetra Tech (TTEK), APi Group (APG), Stantec (STN), BWX Technologies (BWXT), Quanta Services (PWR), EMCOR Group (EME), Comfort Systems USA (FIX), MasTec (MTZ), and KBR (KBR).
Clean Harbors (NYSE:CLH) and AECOM (NYSE:ACM) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, valuation, dividends and media sentiment.
90.4% of Clean Harbors shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.4% of AECOM shares are held by institutional investors. 5.9% of Clean Harbors shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of AECOM shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Clean Harbors has higher earnings, but lower revenue than AECOM. AECOM is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Clean Harbors, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, AECOM had 4 more articles in the media than Clean Harbors. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for AECOM and 5 mentions for Clean Harbors. AECOM's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat Clean Harbors' score of 0.58 indicating that Clean Harbors is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Clean Harbors has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AECOM has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Clean Harbors presently has a consensus target price of $216.40, suggesting a potential downside of 0.09%. AECOM has a consensus target price of $107.25, suggesting a potential upside of 22.80%. Given Clean Harbors' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe AECOM is more favorable than Clean Harbors.
Clean Harbors received 52 more outperform votes than AECOM when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.45% of users gave Clean Harbors an outperform vote while only 64.04% of users gave AECOM an outperform vote.
Clean Harbors has a net margin of 6.85% compared to Clean Harbors' net margin of -0.09%. Clean Harbors' return on equity of 22.73% beat AECOM's return on equity.
Summary
Clean Harbors beats AECOM on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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