BrightView (NYSE:BV – Get Free Report) and Civeo (NYSE:CVEO – Get Free Report) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings and risk.
Risk and Volatility
BrightView has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Civeo has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares BrightView and Civeo”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| BrightView | $2.67 billion | 0.38 | $56.00 million | ($0.25) | -43.21 |
| Civeo | $638.85 million | 0.51 | -$20.07 million | ($1.17) | -26.77 |
BrightView has higher revenue and earnings than Civeo. BrightView is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Civeo, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for BrightView and Civeo, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| BrightView | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2.33 |
| Civeo | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2.50 |
BrightView currently has a consensus target price of $13.93, indicating a potential upside of 28.99%. Civeo has a consensus target price of $42.25, indicating a potential upside of 34.88%. Given Civeo’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Civeo is more favorable than BrightView.
Profitability
This table compares BrightView and Civeo’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| BrightView | 0.74% | 5.03% | 1.87% |
| Civeo | -1.93% | -7.82% | -2.72% |
Institutional and Insider Ownership
92.4% of BrightView shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.4% of Civeo shares are held by institutional investors. 2.8% of BrightView shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.5% of Civeo shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
BrightView beats Civeo on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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.
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.
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