Bowman Consulting Group (NASDAQ:BWMN – Get Free Report) and Concentrix (NASDAQ:CNXC – Get Free Report) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.
Profitability
This table compares Bowman Consulting Group and Concentrix’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Bowman Consulting Group | 2.48% | 4.78% | 2.25% |
| Concentrix | -13.35% | 17.80% | 5.45% |
Institutional and Insider Ownership
63.2% of Bowman Consulting Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.3% of Concentrix shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.4% of Bowman Consulting Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Concentrix shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Analyst Recommendations
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Bowman Consulting Group | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2.50 |
| Concentrix | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2.40 |
Bowman Consulting Group currently has a consensus price target of $45.50, suggesting a potential upside of 48.55%. Concentrix has a consensus price target of $48.50, suggesting a potential upside of 74.90%. Given Concentrix’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Concentrix is more favorable than Bowman Consulting Group.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Bowman Consulting Group and Concentrix”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Bowman Consulting Group | $490.02 million | 1.07 | $12.85 million | $0.71 | 43.14 |
| Concentrix | $9.83 billion | 0.17 | -$1.28 billion | ($21.55) | -1.29 |
Bowman Consulting Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Concentrix. Concentrix 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.
Risk and Volatility
Bowman Consulting Group has a beta of 1.39, meaning that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Concentrix has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Bowman Consulting Group beats Concentrix on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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.
About Concentrix
Concentrix Corporation engages in the provision of technology-infused customer experience (CX) solutions worldwide. The company provides CX process optimization, technology innovation, front- and back-office automation, analytics, and business transformation services, across various channels of communication, such as voice, chat, email, social media, asynchronous messaging, and custom applications. It also offers customer lifecycle management; customer experience/user experience strategy and design; analytics and actionable insights; digital transformation services that design and engineer CX solutions to enable efficient customer self-service and build customer loyalty; customer engagement solutions and services that address the entirety of the customer lifecycle; AI technology that can intelligently act on customer intent to improve customer experience with non-human engagement; voice of the customer and analytics solutions to gather and analyze customer feedback to foster loyalty to, and growth with, clients; analytics and consulting solutions that synthesize data and provide professional insight to improve clients’ customer experience strategies; vertical business process outsourcing (BPO) services; and back office BPO services that support clients in non-customer facing areas. The company’s clients include technology and consumer electronics, retail, travel and e-commerce, communications and media, banking, financial services and insurance, healthcare, and others, as well as global IPOs, social brands, and banks. Concentrix Corporation was founded in 2004 and is based in Newark, California.
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