BBU.UN vs. DIV, AEF, DE, OIC, SIQ, GTII, AC, FTT, ATS, and ATA
Should you be buying Brookfield Business Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Business Partners include Diversified Royalty (DIV), Acasta Enterprises (AEF), Decisive Dividend (DE), Origin Gold Co. (OIC.V) (OIC), SiQ Mountain Industries (SIQ), Green Thumb Industries (GTII), Air Canada (AC), Finning International (FTT), ATS (ATS), and ATS Automation Tooling Systems (ATA). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Diversified Royalty (TSE:DIV) and Brookfield Business Partners (TSE:BBU.UN) are both small-cap industrials 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.
14.9% of Diversified Royalty shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.9% of Brookfield Business Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Diversified Royalty shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Brookfield Business Partners 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.
Diversified Royalty has a beta of 1.59, indicating that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookfield Business Partners has a beta of 1.45, indicating that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Diversified Royalty presently has a consensus target price of C$3.47, indicating a potential upside of 25.15%. Brookfield Business Partners has a consensus target price of C$32.00, indicating a potential upside of 30.56%. Given Diversified Royalty's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Brookfield Business Partners is more favorable than Diversified Royalty.
In the previous week, Diversified Royalty had 2 more articles in the media than Brookfield Business Partners. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Diversified Royalty and 2 mentions for Brookfield Business Partners. Diversified Royalty's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Brookfield Business Partners' score of 0.18 indicating that Brookfield Business Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Diversified Royalty has a net margin of 54.93% compared to Diversified Royalty's net margin of 0.89%. Diversified Royalty's return on equity of 20.30% beat Brookfield Business Partners' return on equity.
Brookfield Business Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Diversified Royalty. Brookfield Business Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Diversified Royalty, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Diversified Royalty received 69 more outperform votes than Brookfield Business Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.52% of users gave Brookfield Business Partners an outperform vote while only 68.15% of users gave Diversified Royalty an outperform vote.
Diversified Royalty pays an annual dividend of C$0.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.0%. Brookfield Business Partners pays an annual dividend of C$0.34 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Diversified Royalty pays out 113.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Brookfield Business Partners pays out 4.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Brookfield Business Partners beats Diversified Royalty on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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