Financial Survey: APi Group (NYSE:APG) and BrightView (NYSE:BV)

BrightView (NYSE:BV) and APi Group (NYSE:APG) are both business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for BrightView and APi Group, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
BrightView	1	3	2	2	2.63
APi Group	0	2	7	1	2.90

BrightView currently has a consensus target price of $14.70, suggesting a potential upside of 8.01%. APi Group has a consensus target price of $43.24, suggesting a potential upside of 1.93%. Given BrightView’s higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe BrightView is more favorable than APi Group.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares BrightView and APi Group”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
BrightView	$2.67 billion	0.48	$56.00 million	$0.04	340.25
APi Group	$7.02 billion	2.51	$250.00 million	$0.37	114.65

APi Group has higher revenue and earnings than BrightView. APi Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BrightView, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares BrightView and APi Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
BrightView	2.10%	8.43%	3.21%
APi Group	3.44%	21.86%	8.08%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

92.4% of BrightView shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.6% of APi Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.8% of BrightView shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.0% of APi Group shares are owned by company 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.

Risk and Volatility

BrightView has a beta of 1.28, indicating that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, APi Group has a beta of 1.7, indicating that its stock price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

APi Group beats BrightView on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About BrightView

BrightView Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides commercial landscaping services in the United States. It operates through two segments, Maintenance Services and Development Services. The Maintenance Services segment delivers a suite of recurring commercial landscaping services, including mowing, gardening, mulching and snow removal, water management, irrigation maintenance, tree care, golf course maintenance, and specialty turf maintenance. Its customers' properties include corporate and commercial properties, homeowners associations, public parks, hotels and resorts, airport authorities, municipalities, hospitals and other healthcare facilities, educational institutions, restaurants and retail, and golf courses. This segment's customer base includes approximately 8,800 office parks and corporate campuses 7,100 residential communities, and 550 educational institutions. The Development Services segment offers landscape architecture and development services for new facilities and redesign projects. Its services include project design and management services, landscape architecture and installation, irrigation installation, tree moving and installation, pool and water features, sports field, and other services. BrightView Holdings, Inc. also operates as official field consultant to various league baseball. The company was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.

About APi Group

APi Group Corporation provides safety and specialty services worldwide. It operates through Safety Services and Specialty Services segments. The Safety Services segment offers solutions focusing on end-to-end integrated occupancy systems, such as fire protection services; heating, ventilation, and air conditioning solutions; and entry systems, which include the design, installation, inspection, and service of these integrated systems. The Specialty Services segment provides various infrastructure and specialized industrial plant services, including maintenance and repair of underground electric, gas, water, sewer, and telecommunications infrastructure. This segment offers engineering and design, fabrication, installation, maintenance service and repair, retrofitting and upgrading services, pipeline infrastructure, access and road construction, supporting facilities, and integrity management and maintenance to the energy industry. It serves customers in the public and private sectors, including commercial, industrial, distribution and fulfillment centers, manufacturing, education, healthcare, telecom, utilities, transmission and integrity, high tech, entertainment, government, and infrastructure markets. The company was formerly known as J2 Acquisition Limited and changed its name to APi Group Corporation in October 2019. APi Group Corporation was founded in 1926 and is headquartered in New Brighton, Minnesota.