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).
Brink's (NYSE:BCO) and ADT (NYSE:ADT) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Brink's pays an annual dividend of $0.97 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. ADT pays an annual dividend of $0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Brink's pays out 37.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ADT pays out 31.4% 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 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
ADT has higher revenue and earnings 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.
95.0% of Brink's shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.2% of ADT shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Brink's shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of ADT shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
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 0.80 beat ADT's score of 0.72 indicating that Brink's 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.
Brink's presently has a consensus price target of $106.50, indicating a potential upside of 3.16%. ADT has a consensus price target of $8.43, indicating a potential upside of 18.61%. Given ADT's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe ADT is more favorable than Brink's.
ADT has a net margin of 12.81% compared to Brink's' net margin of 2.46%. Brink's' return on equity of 59.84% beat ADT's return on equity.
Brink's has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ADT has a beta of 1.56, suggesting that its stock price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Brink's beats ADT on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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