Head to Head Review: Civeo (NYSE:CVEO) & Bridger Aerospace Group (NASDAQ:BAER)

Bridger Aerospace Group (NASDAQ:BAER) and Civeo (NYSE:CVEO) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and earnings.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Bridger Aerospace Group and Civeo”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Bridger Aerospace Group	$122.83 million	0.56	$4.14 million	($0.85)	-1.44
Civeo	$638.85 million	0.56	-$20.07 million	($1.17)	-29.45

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

Institutional & Insider Ownership

48.9% of Bridger Aerospace Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.4% of Civeo shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.4% of Bridger Aerospace Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.5% of Civeo shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Bridger Aerospace Group and Civeo’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Bridger Aerospace Group	-10.77%	-1.21%	-3.89%
Civeo	-1.93%	-7.82%	-2.72%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Bridger Aerospace Group and Civeo, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Bridger Aerospace Group	1	1	3	0	2.40
Civeo	1	1	1	1	2.50

Bridger Aerospace Group presently has a consensus price target of $3.67, suggesting a potential upside of 200.55%. Civeo has a consensus price target of $44.00, suggesting a potential upside of 27.68%. Given Bridger Aerospace Group’s higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Bridger Aerospace Group is more favorable than Civeo.

Volatility and Risk

Bridger Aerospace Group has a beta of 0.35, meaning that its stock price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Civeo has a beta of 0.72, meaning that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Civeo beats Bridger Aerospace Group on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Bridger Aerospace Group

Bridger Aerospace Group Holdings, Inc. provides aerial wildfire management, relief and suppression, and firefighting services to federal and state government agencies in the United States. It offers fire suppression services, such as direct fire suppression aerial firefighting support services for ground crew to drop large amounts of water quickly and directly on wildfires. The company also provides aerial surveillance services, including fire suppression aircraft over an incident and tactical coordination with the incident commander through its manned and unmanned aircraft. It operates an aircraft fleet of 18 planes. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Belgrade, Montana.

About Civeo

Civeo Corporation provides hospitality services to the natural resource industry in Canada, Australia, and the United States. The company develops lodges and villages; and mobile assets, including modular, skid-mounted accommodation, and central facilities that provide short to medium-term accommodation needs. It offers food, housekeeping, and maintenance services, as well as laundry, facility management and maintenance, water and wastewater treatment, power generation, communication systems, security, and logistics services, and camp management services. In addition, the company provides development activities for workforce accommodation facilities, including site selection, permitting, engineering and design, manufacturing management, and site construction services, as well as lodging and catering services. It serves oil, mining, engineering, and oilfield and mining service companies. Civeo Corporation was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.