BBU.UN vs. CJT, EIF, RUS, MDA, WTE, BDGI, BLDP, SIS, MTL, and BDT Should you be buying Brookfield Business Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Business Partners include Cargojet (CJT), Exchange Income (EIF), Russel Metals (RUS), MDA (MDA), Westshore Terminals Investment (WTE), Badger Infrastructure Solutions (BDGI), Ballard Power Systems (BLDP), Savaria (SIS), Mullen Group (MTL), and Bird Construction (BDT). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Cargojet (TSE:CJT ) and Brookfield Business Partners (TSE:BBU.UN ) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, risk and institutional ownership.
Cargojet received 216 more outperform votes than Brookfield Business Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.35% of users gave Brookfield Business Partners an outperform vote while only 63.77% of users gave Cargojet an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Cargojet had 7 more articles in the media than Brookfield Business Partners. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Cargojet and 2 mentions for Brookfield Business Partners. Cargojet's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Brookfield Business Partners' score of 0.12 indicating that Brookfield Business Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cargojet pays an annual dividend of C$1.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Brookfield Business Partners pays an annual dividend of C$0.34 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Cargojet pays out 53.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brookfield Business Partners pays out 3.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Brookfield Business Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Brookfield Business Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Cargojet. Brookfield Business Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cargojet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cargojet currently has a consensus target price of C$148.91, suggesting a potential upside of 24.80%. Brookfield Business Partners has a consensus target price of C$32.00, suggesting a potential upside of 19.40%. Given Brookfield Business Partners' higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Cargojet is more favorable than Brookfield Business Partners.
Cargojet has a net margin of 4.48% compared to Cargojet's net margin of 0.89%. Cargojet's return on equity of 20.30% beat Brookfield Business Partners' return on equity.
52.8% of Cargojet shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.9% of Brookfield Business Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.7% of Cargojet shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Brookfield Business Partners shares are owned by company 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.
Cargojet has a beta of 1, meaning that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Brookfield Business Partners has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary Brookfield Business Partners beats Cargojet on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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