BBCP vs. BBU, AGX, LMB, MTRX, SMXT, WLGS, CSCW, APG, BLD, and AMRC
Should you be buying Concrete Pumping stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Concrete Pumping include Brookfield Business Partners (BBU), Argan (AGX), Limbach (LMB), Matrix Service (MTRX), SolarMax Technology (SMXT), WANG & LEE GROUP (WLGS), Color Star Technology (CSCW), APi Group (APG), TopBuild (BLD), and Ameresco (AMRC).
Concrete Pumping (NASDAQ:BBCP) and Brookfield Business Partners (NYSE:BBU) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and dividends.
Brookfield Business Partners received 163 more outperform votes than Concrete Pumping when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.93% of users gave Brookfield Business Partners an outperform vote while only 57.08% of users gave Concrete Pumping an outperform vote.
Concrete Pumping presently has a consensus price target of $8.50, suggesting a potential upside of 18.55%. Brookfield Business Partners has a consensus price target of $30.33, suggesting a potential upside of 67.77%. Given Brookfield Business Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Brookfield Business Partners is more favorable than Concrete Pumping.
Concrete Pumping has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookfield Business Partners has a beta of 1.44, indicating that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
34.2% of Concrete Pumping shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.0% of Brookfield Business Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 27.4% of Concrete Pumping shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Brookfield Business Partners has a net margin of 7.08% compared to Concrete Pumping's net margin of 4.81%. Brookfield Business Partners' return on equity of 21.64% beat Concrete Pumping's return on equity.
Brookfield Business Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Concrete Pumping. Brookfield Business Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Concrete Pumping, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Brookfield Business Partners had 3 more articles in the media than Concrete Pumping. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Brookfield Business Partners and 2 mentions for Concrete Pumping. Concrete Pumping's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Brookfield Business Partners' score of 0.56 indicating that Concrete Pumping is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Brookfield Business Partners beats Concrete Pumping on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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