BCO vs. ADT, EXPD, CHRW, HUBG, FWRD, CRGO, GVH, JYD, SGLY, and J
Should you be buying Brink's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brink's include ADT (ADT), Expeditors International of Washington (EXPD), C.H. Robinson Worldwide (CHRW), Hub Group (HUBG), Forward Air (FWRD), Freightos (CRGO), Globavend (GVH), Jayud Global Logistics (JYD), Singularity Future Technology (SGLY), and Jacobs Solutions (J).
ADT (NYSE:ADT) and Brink's (NYSE:BCO) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, earnings and community ranking.
ADT has a net margin of 12.81% compared to ADT's net margin of 2.46%. ADT's return on equity of 59.84% beat Brink's' return on equity.
In the previous week, Brink's had 1 more articles in the media than ADT. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Brink's and 3 mentions for ADT. Brink's' average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat ADT's score of 0.47 indicating that ADT is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Brink's received 30 more outperform votes than ADT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.29% of users gave Brink's an outperform vote while only 64.19% of users gave ADT an outperform vote.
87.2% of ADT shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.0% of Brink's shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of ADT shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Brink's shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
ADT has a beta of 1.56, indicating that its stock price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brink's has a beta of 1.39, indicating that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ADT presently has a consensus target price of $8.43, indicating a potential upside of 18.61%. Brink's has a consensus target price of $106.50, indicating a potential upside of 3.16%. Given Brink's' higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe ADT is more favorable than Brink's.
ADT pays an annual dividend of $0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Brink's pays an annual dividend of $0.97 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. ADT pays out 31.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brink's pays out 37.2% 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. ADT has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Brink's has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years. ADT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
ADT has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Brink's. ADT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brink's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Brink's beats ADT on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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