Bowman Consulting Group (BWMN) & Its Peers Head-To-Head Survey

Bowman Consulting Group (NASDAQ:BWMN) is one of 188 public companies in the “Construction & Engineering” industry, but how does it compare to its peers? We will compare Bowman Consulting Group to similar companies based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Bowman Consulting Group and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Bowman Consulting Group	1	7	0	0	1.88
Bowman Consulting Group Competitors	849	3465	7352	362	2.60

Bowman Consulting Group presently has a consensus price target of $43.00, indicating a potential upside of 0.00%. As a group, “Construction & Engineering” companies have a potential upside of 49.44%. Given Bowman Consulting Group’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Bowman Consulting Group has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Bowman Consulting Group and its peers revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Bowman Consulting Group	$490.02 million	$12.85 million	107.50
Bowman Consulting Group Competitors	$9.57 billion	$456.60 million	-5,802.22

Bowman Consulting Group’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Bowman Consulting Group. Bowman Consulting Group is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares Bowman Consulting Group and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Bowman Consulting Group	1.30%	2.67%	1.20%
Bowman Consulting Group Competitors	-4.03%	2.63%	3.80%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

63.2% of Bowman Consulting Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.9% of shares of all “Construction & Engineering” companies are held by institutional investors. 17.5% of Bowman Consulting Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 20.9% of shares of all “Construction & Engineering” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility & Risk

Bowman Consulting Group has a beta of 1.47, suggesting that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bowman Consulting Group’s peers have a beta of 1.60, suggesting that their average share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Bowman Consulting Group peers beat Bowman Consulting Group on 9 of the 13 factors compared.

Bowman Consulting Group Company Profile

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.