MDA vs. BBD.A, HRX, MAL, BBD.B, WTE, BDGI, BLDP, SIS, CJT, and BBU.UN
Should you be buying MDA Space stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MDA Space include Bombardier (BBD.A), Héroux-Devtek (HRX), Magellan Aerospace (MAL), Bombardier, Inc. Class B (BBD.B), Westshore Terminals Investment (WTE), Badger Infrastructure Solutions (BDGI), Ballard Power Systems (BLDP), Savaria (SIS), Cargojet (CJT), and Brookfield Business Partners (BBU.UN). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Bombardier (TSE:BBD.A) and MDA Space (TSE:MDA) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
2.0% of Bombardier shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.3% of MDA Space shares are owned by institutional investors. 84.8% of Bombardier shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.6% of MDA Space shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
MDA Space has a net margin of 5.71% compared to MDA Space's net margin of 3.21%. Bombardier's return on equity of 4.41% beat MDA Space's return on equity.
Bombardier has higher revenue and earnings than MDA Space. Bombardier is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MDA Space, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, MDA Space had 5 more articles in the media than Bombardier. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for MDA Space and 0 mentions for Bombardier. Bombardier's average media sentiment score of 0.23 beat MDA Space's score of 0.00 indicating that MDA Space is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bombardier currently has a consensus target price of C$60.00, suggesting a potential downside of 24.30%. MDA Space has a consensus target price of C$14.88, suggesting a potential upside of 15.58%. Given Bombardier's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe MDA Space is more favorable than Bombardier.
Bombardier received 40 more outperform votes than MDA Space when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.01% of users gave Bombardier an outperform vote while only 59.22% of users gave MDA Space an outperform vote.
Bombardier has a beta of 2.99, meaning that its share price is 199% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MDA Space has a beta of 0.14, meaning that its share price is 86% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
MDA Space beats Bombardier on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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