Head-To-Head Survey: Royal Boskalis Westminster (OTCMKTS:KKWFF) & WSP Global (OTCMKTS:WSPOF)

WSP Global (OTCMKTS:WSPOF) and Royal Boskalis Westminster (OTCMKTS:KKWFF) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

26.4% of Royal Boskalis Westminster shares are held by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for WSP Global and Royal Boskalis Westminster, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
WSP Global	0	0	4	0	3.00
Royal Boskalis Westminster	0	0	0	0	0.00

Profitability

This table compares WSP Global and Royal Boskalis Westminster’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
WSP Global	5.46%	12.01%	5.25%
Royal Boskalis Westminster	N/A	N/A	N/A

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares WSP Global and Royal Boskalis Westminster”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
WSP Global	$13.09 billion	1.29	$690.15 million	$1.61	77.76
Royal Boskalis Westminster	N/A	N/A	N/A	$4.11	7.85

WSP Global has higher revenue and earnings than Royal Boskalis Westminster. Royal Boskalis Westminster is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than WSP Global, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

WSP Global beats Royal Boskalis Westminster on 7 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About WSP Global

WSP Global Inc. operates as a professional services consulting firm in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia, and internationally. It advises, plans, designs, and manages projects for rail, transit, aviation, highways, bridges, tunnels, water, maritime, and urban infrastructure for public and private clients, construction contractors, and other partners. The company also provides engineering and consultancy services, such as decarbonization strategies, digital building design to building engineering design, and project management services. In addition, it works with and advises governments and private sector in earth sciences and environmental sustainability to conduct due diligence, permit approvals, regulatory compliance, waste/hazardous materials management, geotechnical and mining engineering, environmental/ social impact assessments, feasibility, and land remediation studies. Further, the company offers energy clients support, including large-scale power plants, renewables clean energy investments, smaller on-site power generation and efficiency programs, energy transmission, storage and distribution from pre-feasibility studies and community engagement through operation and decommissioning; and provides siting and licensing, procurement, construction management, engineering, process design, and productivity analysis to food and beverage, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, aerospace, automotive, technology, and chemicals industries, as well as operation, maintenance, and decommissioning services during the facility’s active life. Additionally, it offers strategic advisory services comprising planning and advisory, management, and technology and sustainability services. The company was formerly known as GENIVAR Inc. and changed its name to WSP Global Inc. in January 2014. WSP Global Inc. was founded in 1885 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

About Royal Boskalis Westminster

Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. provides dredging, offshore energy, and maritime services worldwide. Its Dredging & Inland Infra segment constructs and maintains ports and waterways; and provides land reclamation, coastal defense, riverbank protection, and underwater rock fragmentation services. This segment also extracts raw materials; designs, prepares, and executes civil infra works, including the construction of roads and railroads, bridges, dams, viaducts, and tunnels; performs specialist works, such as soil improvement and land remediation; and operates as a contractor of dry infrastructure projects. The company's Offshore Energy segment is involved in the engineering, construction, maintenance, and decommissioning of oil and liquefied natural gas import/export facilities, offshore platforms, pipelines and cables, and offshore wind farms. This segment also offers heavy transport, lift and installation work, and diving and remotely operated vehicle services, as well as dredging, offshore pipeline and cable installation, rock installation, and marine activities and survey services. Its Towage & Salvage segment offers towage services to incoming and outgoing oceangoing vessels; and berthing and unberthing of tankers, pilotage, subsea inspection and maintenance, firefighting, and the coupling and uncoupling of terminal connections, as well as operates and manages onshore and offshore terminals. This segment also provides assistance to vessels in distress, shipwrecks or damaged offshore platforms removal, environmental care, and consultancy services. The company primarily serves oil, gas, and wind energy companies; port and terminal operators; governments; shipping and insurance companies; international project developers; and mining companies and related EPC contractors and subcontractors. It operates a fleet of approximately 600 vessels and floating equipment. The company was founded in 1910 and is headquartered in Papendrecht, the Netherlands. As of September 20, 2022, Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. was taken private.