Bowman Consulting Group (NASDAQ:BWMN) and Atlantic International (NASDAQ:ATLN) Head-To-Head Comparison

Bowman Consulting Group (NASDAQ:BWMN) and Atlantic International (NASDAQ:ATLN) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Bowman Consulting Group and Atlantic International, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Bowman Consulting Group	1	2	3	0	2.33
Atlantic International	1	1	0	1	2.33

Bowman Consulting Group currently has a consensus target price of $47.50, indicating a potential upside of 50.65%. Given Bowman Consulting Group’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Bowman Consulting Group is more favorable than Atlantic International.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Bowman Consulting Group and Atlantic International”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Bowman Consulting Group	$490.02 million	1.13	$12.85 million	$0.60	52.55
Atlantic International	$435.88 million	0.26	-$59.43 million	($1.09)	-1.38

Bowman Consulting Group has higher revenue and earnings than Atlantic International. Atlantic International 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.

Profitability

This table compares Bowman Consulting Group and Atlantic International’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Bowman Consulting Group	2.02%	3.98%	1.84%
Atlantic International	-13.64%	N/A	-54.43%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

63.2% of Bowman Consulting Group shares are held by institutional investors. 17.5% of Bowman Consulting Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.6% of Atlantic International shares are held 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.

Volatility & Risk

Bowman Consulting Group has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Atlantic International has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Bowman Consulting Group beats Atlantic International on 13 of the 14 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 Atlantic International

Atlantic International Corp. engages in the design, development, and manufacture of genetic analysis technologies. Its services include RNA sequencing and DNA sequencing. The company was founded by William C. St. Laurent and Daniel R. Jones in 2013 and is headquartered in Billercia, MA.