Concentrix (NASDAQ:CNXC) & BrightView (NYSE:BV) Financial Review

Concentrix (NASDAQ:CNXC) and BrightView (NYSE:BV) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Concentrix	-13.35%	17.80%	5.45%
BrightView	1.90%	7.85%	2.98%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

90.3% of Concentrix shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of BrightView shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Concentrix shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of BrightView shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk and Volatility

Concentrix has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BrightView has a beta of 1.26, indicating that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations for Concentrix and BrightView, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Concentrix	1	1	3	0	2.40
BrightView	3	2	2	2	2.33

Concentrix presently has a consensus target price of $48.50, indicating a potential upside of 83.57%. BrightView has a consensus target price of $14.68, indicating a potential upside of 28.18%. Given Concentrix’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Concentrix is more favorable than BrightView.

Earnings & Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Concentrix	$9.83 billion	0.17	-$1.28 billion	($21.55)	-1.23
BrightView	$2.67 billion	0.40	$56.00 million	($0.02)	-572.75

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

Summary

BrightView beats Concentrix on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

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.