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).
Brookfield Business Partners (NYSE:BBU) and Concrete Pumping (NASDAQ:BBCP) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Brookfield Business Partners has a net margin of 7.08% compared to Brookfield Business Partners' net margin of 4.81%. Concrete Pumping's return on equity of 21.64% beat Brookfield Business Partners' return on equity.
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.
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.
85.0% of Brookfield Business Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.2% of Concrete Pumping shares are held by institutional investors. 27.4% of Concrete Pumping shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Brookfield Business Partners presently has a consensus price target of $30.33, suggesting a potential upside of 67.77%. Concrete Pumping has a consensus price target of $8.50, suggesting a potential upside of 18.55%. Given Concrete Pumping's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Brookfield Business Partners is more favorable than Concrete Pumping.
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. Brookfield Business Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Concrete Pumping's score of 0.56 indicating that Concrete Pumping is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Brookfield Business Partners has a beta of 1.44, meaning that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Concrete Pumping has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Brookfield Business Partners beats Concrete Pumping on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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