ARE vs. BAD, BDT, BDGI, IBG, DRT, CKK, WSP, STN, SNC, and ATS
Should you be buying Aecon Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aecon Group include Badger Daylighting (BAD), Bird Construction (BDT), Badger Infrastructure Solutions (BDGI), IBI Group (IBG), DIRTT Environmental Solutions (DRT), Cordy Oilfield Services (CKK), WSP Global (WSP), Stantec (STN), SNC-Lavalin Group (SNC), and ATS (ATS). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Aecon Group vs.
Badger Daylighting (TSE:BAD) and Aecon Group (TSE:ARE) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, valuation, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
Aecon Group has a consensus price target of C$27.35, suggesting a potential upside of 16.61%. Given Aecon Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Aecon Group is more favorable than Badger Daylighting.
Badger Daylighting has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Aecon Group's net margin of -1.56%. Badger Daylighting's return on equity of 0.00% beat Aecon Group's return on equity.
Badger Daylighting pays an annual dividend of C$0.60 per share. Aecon Group pays an annual dividend of C$0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Badger Daylighting pays out 463.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Aecon Group pays out -74.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Aecon Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Badger Daylighting and Badger Daylighting both had 1 articles in the media. Badger Daylighting's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Aecon Group'saverage media sentiment score.
Badger Daylighting has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Aecon Group. Aecon Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Badger Daylighting, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
18.2% of Aecon Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Aecon Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Aecon Group received 239 more outperform votes than Badger Daylighting when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.02% of users gave Aecon Group an outperform vote while only 62.05% of users gave Badger Daylighting an outperform vote.
Summary
Aecon Group beats Badger Daylighting on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:ARE) was last updated on 2/27/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
