Masonglory (NASDAQ:MSGY) & Stantec (NYSE:STN) Critical Survey

Stantec (NYSE:STN) and Masonglory (NASDAQ:MSGY) are both industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings for Stantec and Masonglory, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Stantec	0	2	5	0	2.71
Masonglory	1	0	0	0	1.00

Stantec currently has a consensus target price of $175.00, suggesting a potential upside of 141.00%. Given Stantec’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Stantec is more favorable than Masonglory.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Stantec and Masonglory”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Stantec	$5.83 billion	1.40	$343.11 million	$3.12	23.27
Masonglory	$23.56 million	0.19	-$8.01 million	N/A	N/A

Stantec has higher revenue and earnings than Masonglory.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

63.9% of Stantec shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Stantec shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Stantec and Masonglory’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Stantec	5.92%	19.37%	8.03%
Masonglory	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

Stantec beats Masonglory on 11 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Stantec

Stantec Inc. provides professional services in the areas of infrastructure and facilities to the public and private sectors in Canada, the United States, and internationally. It offers evaluation, planning, and designing infrastructure solutions; solutions for sustainable water resources, planning, management, and infrastructure; environmental services; integrated architecture, engineering, interior design, and planning solutions for buildings; and energy and resources solutions. The company also provides consulting services in engineering, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, surveying, environmental sciences, project management, and project economics. In addition, it offers planning and design services to clients in residential, logistics, retail, infrastructure, energy, higher education, and urban regeneration sectors; architectural and interior design, and planning services in the science and technology, commercial workplace, higher education, residential, and hospitality markets. Further, the company provides transportation advisory, transport engineering, and technical design; project delivery consultancy services for mining, resources, and industrial infrastructure projects; paleontological and archaeological services for the rail, transportation, water, and power and energy sectors; and environmental and cultural resource compliance services. Additionally, it offers consulting services in sustainable building design, energy infrastructure upgrades, sustainable district heating network, and e-mobility; and planning, design, construction administration, commissioning, maintenance, decommissioning, and remediation services. The company was formerly known as Stanley Technology Group Inc. and changed its name to Stantec Inc. in October 1998. Stantec Inc. was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Edmonton, Canada.

About Masonglory

Masonglory Limited is a subcontractor providing wet trades and related ancillary services to private and public sectors. Masonglory Limited is based in Hong Kong.