STN vs. ACM, TTEK, VSEC, WLDN, MG, ENG, VRSK, IT, EFX, and RKT
Should you be buying Stantec stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Stantec include AECOM (ACM), Tetra Tech (TTEK), VSE (VSEC), Willdan Group (WLDN), Mistras Group (MG), ENGlobal (ENG), Verisk Analytics (VRSK), Gartner (IT), Equifax (EFX), and Rocket Companies (RKT).
AECOM (NYSE:ACM) and Stantec (NYSE:STN) are both construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and valuation.
AECOM has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Stantec has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, AECOM had 8 more articles in the media than Stantec. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for AECOM and 2 mentions for Stantec. AECOM's average media sentiment score of 1.31 beat Stantec's score of 0.66 indicating that Stantec is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
AECOM presently has a consensus price target of $107.25, suggesting a potential upside of 22.80%. Stantec has a consensus price target of $105.00, suggesting a potential upside of 30.14%. Given AECOM's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Stantec is more favorable than AECOM.
85.4% of AECOM shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.9% of Stantec shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of AECOM shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Stantec shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
AECOM received 112 more outperform votes than Stantec when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.04% of users gave AECOM an outperform vote while only 59.91% of users gave Stantec an outperform vote.
Stantec has a net margin of 5.19% compared to Stantec's net margin of -0.09%. Stantec's return on equity of 22.73% beat AECOM's return on equity.
Stantec has lower revenue, but higher earnings than AECOM. AECOM is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Stantec, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AECOM pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Stantec pays an annual dividend of $0.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. AECOM pays out -977.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Stantec pays out 27.1% 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. AECOM has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Stantec has raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years. AECOM is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
AECOM beats Stantec on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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