ARE vs. BDT, BDGI, MTL, AFN, SIS, BBD.A, BLDP, AND, CGY, and HRX Should you be buying Aecon Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aecon Group include Bird Construction (BDT), Badger Infrastructure Solutions (BDGI), Mullen Group (MTL), Ag Growth International (AFN), Savaria (SIS), Bombardier (BBD.A), Ballard Power Systems (BLDP), Andlauer Healthcare Group (AND), Calian Group (CGY), and Héroux-Devtek (HRX). 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 investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Aecon Group has a net margin of 3.77% compared to Bird Construction's net margin of 2.56%. Bird Construction's return on equity of 24.03% beat Aecon Group's return on equity.
Aecon Group pays an annual dividend of C$0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Bird Construction pays an annual dividend of C$0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Aecon Group pays out 35.3% 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 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.
16.7% of Aecon Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.1% 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 large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Bird Construction had 44 more articles in the media than Aecon Group. MarketBeat recorded 46 mentions for Bird Construction and 2 mentions for Aecon Group. Aecon Group's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Bird Construction's score of 0.69 indicating that Aecon Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Aecon Group received 182 more outperform votes than Bird Construction when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.77% of users gave Aecon Group an outperform vote while only 55.52% of users gave Bird Construction an outperform vote.
Aecon Group currently has a consensus target price of C$19.17, indicating a potential upside of 14.93%. Bird Construction has a consensus target price of C$23.71, indicating a potential upside of 12.34%. Given Aecon Group's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Aecon Group is more favorable than Bird Construction.
Aecon Group has a beta of 1.19, suggesting that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bird Construction has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary Aecon Group beats Bird Construction on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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