ABM Industries (NYSE:ABM – Get Free Report) and Bowman Consulting Group (NASDAQ:BWMN – Get Free Report) are both business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current ratings for ABM Industries and Bowman Consulting Group, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| ABM Industries | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2.20 |
| Bowman Consulting Group | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2.50 |
ABM Industries currently has a consensus price target of $46.25, indicating a potential upside of 12.79%. Bowman Consulting Group has a consensus price target of $45.50, indicating a potential upside of 38.89%. Given Bowman Consulting Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Bowman Consulting Group is more favorable than ABM Industries.
Valuation and Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| ABM Industries | $8.75 billion | 0.27 | $162.30 million | $2.54 | 16.14 |
| Bowman Consulting Group | $490.02 million | 1.14 | $12.85 million | $0.71 | 46.14 |
ABM Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Bowman Consulting Group. ABM Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bowman Consulting Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
91.6% of ABM Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.2% of Bowman Consulting Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of ABM Industries shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 17.4% of Bowman Consulting Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Profitability
This table compares ABM Industries and Bowman Consulting Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| ABM Industries | 1.78% | 11.77% | 3.99% |
| Bowman Consulting Group | 2.48% | 4.78% | 2.25% |
Risk & Volatility
ABM Industries has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bowman Consulting Group has a beta of 1.36, suggesting that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Bowman Consulting Group beats ABM Industries on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About ABM Industries
ABM Industries Incorporated, through its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of integrated facility, infrastructure, and mobility solutions in the United States and internationally. It operates through Business & Industry, Manufacturing & Distribution, Education, Aviation, and Technical Solutions segments. The company offers janitorial, facilities engineering, and parking services for commercial real estate properties, including corporate offices for high tech clients, sports and entertainment venues, and traditional hospitals and non-acute healthcare facilities; provides vehicle maintenance and other services to rental car providers. It also offers integrated facility services, engineering, and other specialized services in various types of manufacturing, distribution, and data center facilities. In addition, the company delivers custodial and landscaping and grounds for public school districts, private schools, colleges, and universities. Further, it supports airlines and airports with services comprising passenger assistance, catering logistics, air cabin maintenance, and transportation services. Additionally, the company provides electric vehicle power design, installation, and maintenance, as well as microgrid systems installations. ABM Industries Incorporated was founded in 1909 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
About Bowman Consulting Group
Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. provides a range of real estate, energy, infrastructure, and environmental management solutions in the United States. It offers civil and site engineering services, such as conceptual land planning, environmental consulting and permitting, planning/zoning and entitlements, roadway and highway designs, erosion and sediment designs, stormwater management designs, construction administration, traffic studies, floodplain studies, and utility relocation designs; and commissioning and energy efficiency services comprise construction observation, direct systems functional performance testing, system development readiness checklist, post occupancy review, review of construction documents, deferred/seasonal functional testing, final commissioning report, and commissioning review of submittals. The company also provides construction management services, including constructability review, value engineering, budgeting and cost estimating, interagency and utility coordination, onsite observation and report evaluation, public communication and outreach, and resident engineer services, as well as bid solicitation, documentation, and preparation services; and environmental consulting services consisting of wetlands and waters of the U.S. delineations, natural resources inventories, wildlife and vegetation surveys, threatened and endangered species surveys, endangered species conservation and management, wetland creation and enhancement design, NEPA documentation, section 404/401 permitting and compliance, NPDES permitting, and phase I environmental site assessment. In addition, it offers landscape architecture, land procurement and right-of-way acquisition, structural engineering, surveying and geospatial engineering, and transportation and water resources engineering services, as well as mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering services. The company was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia.
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