BrightView (BV) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

BrightView Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides commercial landscaping services in the United States. It operates through two segments, Maintenance Services and Development Services. The Maintenance Services segment delivers a suite of recurring commercial landscaping services, including mowing, gardening, mulching and snow removal, water management, irrigation maintenance, tree care, golf course maintenance, and specialty turf maintenance. Its customers' properties include corporate and commercial properties, homeowners associations, public parks, hotels and resorts, airport authorities, municipalities, hospitals and other healthcare facilities, educational institutions, restaurants and retail, and golf courses. This segment's customer base includes approximately 8,800 office parks and corporate campuses 7,100 residential communities, and 550 educational institutions. The Development Services segment offers landscape architecture and development services for new facilities and redesign projects. Its services include project design and management services, landscape architecture and installation, irrigation installation, tree moving and installation, pool and water features, sports field, and other services. BrightView Holdings, Inc. also operates as official field consultant to various league baseball. The company was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: $16.73 to $17.00
• 50-Day Range: $15.64 to $18.74
• 52-Week Range: $7.75 to $18.89
• Volume: 121,668 shs
• Average Volume: 609,722 shs
• Market Capitalization: $1.60 billion
• P/E Ratio: 153.01
• Dividend Yield: N/A
• Price Target: $17.11
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy

BrightView Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

BrightView scored higher than 50% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 197th out of 338 stocks in the business services sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 2.3 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Moderate Buy

Consensus Rating

BrightView has received a consensus rating of Moderate Buy. The company's average rating score is 2.60, and is based on 6 buy ratings, 1 hold rating, and 2 sell ratings.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

BrightView has been the subject of 6 research reports in the past 90 days, demonstrating strong analyst interest in this stock.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 1.3 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: 13.33%

Earnings Growth

Earnings for BrightView are expected to grow by 13.33% in the coming year, from $0.75 to $0.85 per share.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of BrightView is 152.29, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 135.61.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of BrightView is 152.29, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the Business Services sector average P/E ratio of about 45.76.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

BrightView has a P/B Ratio of 1.24. P/B Ratios below 3 indicates that a company is reasonably valued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: 3.0 / 5
• Short Interest Level: Healthy

Percentage of Shares Shorted

7.19% of the float of BrightView has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

BrightView has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 8.3.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in BrightView has recently decreased by 6.99%, indicating that investor sentiment is improving significantly.

Dividend

• Score: 0.0 / 5
• Dividend Strength: N/A

Dividend Yield

BrightView does not currently pay a dividend.

Dividend Growth

BrightView does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

Sustainability and ESG

• Score: N/A
• Environmental Score: N/A

Percentage of Shares Shorted

7.19% of the float of BrightView has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

BrightView has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 8.3.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in BrightView has recently decreased by 6.99%, indicating that investor sentiment is improving significantly.

News and Social Media

• Score: 3.2 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.84

News Sentiment

BrightView has a news sentiment score of 0.84. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a higher news sentiment than the 0.62 average news sentiment score of Business Services companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 5 news articles for BrightView this week, compared to 4 articles on an average week.

Search Interest

8 people have searched for BV on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 700% compared to the previous 30 days.

MarketBeat Follows

Only 2 people have added BrightView to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days. This is a decrease of 0% compared to the previous 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 2.5 / 5
• Insider Trading: Selling Shares

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, BrightView insiders have sold more of their company's stock than they have bought. Specifically, they have bought $0.00 in company stock and sold $476,307.00 in company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

Only 2.40% of the stock of BrightView is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

92.41% of the stock of BrightView is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

BV Stock Analysis - Frequently Asked Questions

How have BV shares performed this year?

BrightView's stock was trading at $8.42 on January 1st, 2024. Since then, BV shares have increased by 98.9% and is now trading at $16.75.
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How were BrightView's earnings last quarter?

BrightView Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:BV) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, November, 13th. The company reported $0.30 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.28 by $0.02. BrightView's quarterly revenue was down 2.0% on a year-over-year basis.

When did BrightView IPO?

BrightView (BV) raised $501 million in an initial public offering on Thursday, June 28th 2018. The company issued 21,300,000 shares at a price of $22.00-$25.00 per share. Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, KKR, UBS Investment Bank, Baird, Credit Suisse, Macquarie Capital, Jefferies, Mizuho Securities, Morgan Stanley and RBC Capital Markets acted as the underwriters for the IPO and Nomura, Stifel, William Blair, Moelis & Company and SMBC Nikko were co-managers.

Who are BrightView's major shareholders?

Top institutional shareholders of BrightView include Harvey Partners LLC (1.98%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.41%), State Street Corp (1.28%) and Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (0.91%). Insiders that own company stock include Kkr Group Partnership LP, Thomas C Donnelly, Jonathan Mark Gottsegen, William L Cornog and Msd Partners, LP.
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How do I buy shares of BrightView?

Shares of BV stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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What other stocks do shareholders of BrightView own?

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some other companies that BrightView investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Meta Platforms (META), Broadcom (AVGO), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Builders FirstSource (BLDR), Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) and ServiceNow (NOW).

Company Calendar

• Last Earnings: 11/13/2024
• Today: 12/18/2024
• Fiscal Year End: 9/30/2025

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: NYSE
• Sector: Business Services
• Industry: Agricultural services
• Sub-Industry: Agriculture
• Current Symbol: NYSE:BV
• CUSIP: N/A
• CIK: 1734713
• Web: www.brightview.com
• Phone: (484) 567-7204
• Fax: N/A
• Employees: 20,100
• Year Founded: N/A

Price Target and Rating

• Average Stock Price Target: $17.11
• High Stock Price Target: $22.00
• Low Stock Price Target: $12.90
• Potential Upside/Downside: +2.3%
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.60
• Research Coverage: 10 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year): $0.11
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 152.01
• Forward P/E Ratio: 22.29
• P/E Growth: N/A
• Net Income: $66.40 million
• Net Margins: 2.40%
• Pretax Margin: 3.49%
• Return on Equity: 7.65%
• Return on Assets: 2.86%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 0.63
• Current Ratio: 1.44
• Quick Ratio: 1.44

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: $2.77 billion
• Price / Sales: 0.57
• Cash Flow: $2.50 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 6.69
• Book Value: $13.48 per share
• Price / Book: 1.24

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 95,000,000
• Free Float: 92,720,000
• Market Cap: $1.59 billion
• Optionable: Optionable
• Beta: 1.30