Reviewing Amentum (NYSE:AMTM) & Alfa Laval (OTCMKTS:ALFVY)

Amentum (NYSE:AMTM) and Alfa Laval (OTCMKTS:ALFVY) are both construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends and earnings.

Volatility & Risk

Amentum has a beta of 0.43, suggesting that its share price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alfa Laval has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations for Amentum and Alfa Laval, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Amentum	0	7	6	0	2.46
Alfa Laval	1	4	3	0	2.25

Amentum presently has a consensus price target of $33.18, indicating a potential upside of 43.21%. Given Amentum’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Amentum is more favorable than Alfa Laval.

Profitability

This table compares Amentum and Alfa Laval’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Amentum	1.04%	11.74%	4.78%
Alfa Laval	11.83%	19.77%	8.68%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

39.9% of Amentum shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.0% of Alfa Laval shares are held by institutional investors. 19.4% of Amentum shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Amentum and Alfa Laval”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Amentum	$14.39 billion	0.39	$66.00 million	$0.60	38.62
Alfa Laval	$7.12 billion	3.38	$845.40 million	$2.09	27.90

Alfa Laval has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Amentum. Alfa Laval is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Amentum, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

About Amentum

Amentum Holdings, Inc. provides engineering and technology solutions to address challenges in science, security, and sustainability. It serves various markets, such as energy and environment, space, intelligence, defense, civilian, commercial, and international markets. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is headquatered in Chantilly, Virginia.

About Alfa Laval

Alfa Laval Corporate AB provides heat transfer, separation, and fluid handling products and solutions worldwide. It operates in three divisions: Energy, Food & Water, and Marine. The company offers oil/gas-fired steam and composite steam boilers, exhaust gas economizer, and ballast water treatment systems, and exhaust gas cleaning products. It also provides sensing and control, cleaning validation, condition monitoring, agitators, tank, powder mixers, fittings, and tubes, as well as wall mounted cleaning nozzles, rotary jet and heads; and tank accessories and covers. In addition, the company offers centrifugal, rotary lobe, three screw, twin screw, and circumferential piston pumps. Further, it provides butterfly, control and check, double seal, diaphragm, double seat, regulating, safety, sampling, shutter, single seat, and ball valves. Additionally, the company offers heat exchanger, tube-in-tube heat exchangers, and process shell-and-tube heat exchangers. Furthermore, it provides finned tube air heat, scraped surface heat exchangers, and various plate heat exchangers, wet surface, and HYAC hybrid air coolers. The company also offers decanters and separator related products. It serves energy, utilities, home, personal care, food, dairy, beverage, marine, transportation, pharmaceutical, biotech, water, and wastewater industries. Alfa Laval Corporate AB was founded in 1883 and is headquartered in Lund, Sweden.