Concrete Pumping (NASDAQ:BBCP) & Taisei (OTCMKTS:TISCF) Critical Analysis

Taisei (OTCMKTS:TISCF) and Concrete Pumping (NASDAQ:BBCP) are both industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, dividends, risk and earnings.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for Taisei and Concrete Pumping, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Taisei	0	0	0	0	0.00
Concrete Pumping	0	3	1	1	2.60

Concrete Pumping has a consensus price target of $10.25, suggesting a potential downside of 2.38%. Given Concrete Pumping’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Concrete Pumping is more favorable than Taisei.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Taisei and Concrete Pumping”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Taisei	N/A	N/A	N/A	$27.88	4.36
Concrete Pumping	$422.91 million	1.25	$6.37 million	$0.16	65.62

Concrete Pumping has higher revenue and earnings than Taisei. Taisei is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Concrete Pumping, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Dividends

Taisei pays an annual dividend of $4.39 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Concrete Pumping pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Taisei pays out 15.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Concrete Pumping pays out 325.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Profitability

This table compares Taisei and Concrete Pumping’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Taisei	N/A	N/A	N/A
Concrete Pumping	2.45%	3.93%	1.17%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

13.7% of Taisei shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.2% of Concrete Pumping shares are owned by institutional investors. 28.2% of Concrete Pumping shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Concrete Pumping beats Taisei on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Taisei

Taisei Corporation engages in the civil engineering, construction, and real estate development businesses in Japan. The company constructs offices, commercial facilities, factories, schools, hospitals, tunnels, bridges, dams, railways, expressways, etc.; and engineers production facilities and development facilities for pharmaceutical and logistics fields. It also involved in the redevelopment, public-private partnership/private finance initiative, property management, in-house development, and condominium sales projects. The company was formerly known as Nippon Doboku Corporation and changed its name to Taisei Corporation in 1946. Taisei Corporation was founded in 1873 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

About Concrete Pumping

Concrete Pumping Holdings, Inc. provides concrete pumping and waste management services in the United States and the United Kingdom. The company offers concrete pumping services to general contractors and concrete finishing companies in the commercial, infrastructure, and residential sectors under the Brundage-Bone and Capital Pumping brands; and industrial cleanup and containment services primarily to customers in the construction industry under the Eco-Pan brand. It leases and rents concrete pumping equipment, pans, and containers. As of October 31, 2023, the company owned a fleet of approximately 930 boom pumps, 90 placing booms, 20 telebelts, 300 stationary pumps, and 115 waste management trucks. Concrete Pumping Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Thornton, Colorado.