BBU vs. AMRC, AGX, LMB, BBCP, SMXT, MTRX, WLGS, CSCW, BLD, and FCFS
Should you be buying Brookfield Business Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Business Partners include Ameresco (AMRC), Argan (AGX), Limbach (LMB), Concrete Pumping (BBCP), SolarMax Technology (SMXT), Matrix Service (MTRX), WANG & LEE GROUP (WLGS), Color Star Technology (CSCW), TopBuild (BLD), and FirstCash (FCFS).
Ameresco (NYSE:AMRC) and Brookfield Business Partners (NYSE:BBU) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
Ameresco presently has a consensus price target of $40.31, suggesting a potential upside of 18.07%. Brookfield Business Partners has a consensus price target of $30.33, suggesting a potential upside of 67.49%. Given Ameresco's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Brookfield Business Partners is more favorable than Ameresco.
In the previous week, Ameresco had 7 more articles in the media than Brookfield Business Partners. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Ameresco and 3 mentions for Brookfield Business Partners. Ameresco's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Brookfield Business Partners' score of 0.68 indicating that Brookfield Business Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Brookfield Business Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Ameresco. Brookfield Business Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ameresco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Brookfield Business Partners has a net margin of 7.08% compared to Brookfield Business Partners' net margin of 4.17%. Ameresco's return on equity of 21.64% beat Brookfield Business Partners' return on equity.
Ameresco has a beta of 1.6, indicating that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookfield Business Partners has a beta of 1.44, indicating that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ameresco received 112 more outperform votes than Brookfield Business Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.93% of users gave Brookfield Business Partners an outperform vote while only 68.87% of users gave Ameresco an outperform vote.
99.2% of Ameresco shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.0% of Brookfield Business Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 42.0% of Ameresco shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Brookfield Business Partners beats Ameresco on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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