Analyzing Brink’s (NYSE:BCO) and Cap Gemini (OTCMKTS:CGEMY)

Brink’s (NYSE:BCO) and Cap Gemini (OTCMKTS:CGEMY) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Brink’s and Cap Gemini”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Brink’s	$5.01 billion	0.78	$162.90 million	$3.70	25.15
Cap Gemini	$23.91 billion	1.17	$1.81 billion	N/A	N/A

Cap Gemini has higher revenue and earnings than Brink’s.

Risk and Volatility

Brink’s has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cap Gemini has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Brink’s and Cap Gemini’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Brink’s	3.29%	82.89%	4.69%
Cap Gemini	N/A	N/A	N/A

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Brink’s and Cap Gemini, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Brink’s	0	0	1	0	3.00
Cap Gemini	0	0	0	0	0.00

Brink’s presently has a consensus price target of $138.00, indicating a potential upside of 48.29%. Given Brink’s’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Brink’s is more favorable than Cap Gemini.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

95.0% of Brink’s shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.1% of Cap Gemini shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Brink’s shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Dividends

Brink’s pays an annual dividend of $1.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Cap Gemini pays an annual dividend of $0.51 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Brink’s pays out 27.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brink’s has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years.

Summary

Brink’s beats Cap Gemini on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Brink’s

The Brink’s Co. engages in providing cash management services, digital retail solutions, and ATM managed services. It operates through the following geographical segments: North America, Latin America, Europe, and Rest of World. The North America segment operates in the U.S. and Canada. The Latin America segment refers to the operations in Latin American countries. The Europe segment relates to operations in European countries. The Rest of World segment focuses on the operations in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. The company was founded by Perry Brink and Fidelia Brink on May 5, 1859 and is headquartered in Richmond, VA.

About Cap Gemini

Capgemini SE, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of consulting, digital transformation, technology, and engineering services primarily in North America, France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the rest of Europe, the Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. The company offers strategy and transformation services in strategy, technology, data science, and creative design fields to support companies and organizations in creating new models and new products within the digital economy. It also provides applications and technology services that helps the clients to develop, modernize, extend, and secure their IT and digital environment, as well as designs and develops technological solutions in data strategy and architecture, data engineering, information governance, data science and analytics, artificial intelligence, and data-driven innovation fields. In addition, the company offers cloud infrastructure services for its clients to build an optimal, agile, and secure foundation for business transformations; and business process outsourcing and transactional services, as well as installation and maintenance services for its clients' IT infrastructures in data centers or in the cloud. It serves various industries, including consumer goods and retail; energy and utilities; banking, capital markets, and insurance; manufacturing and life sciences; public sector; telecommunications, media, and technology; and services. Capgemini SE has strategic partnerships with Adobe, AWS, Aveva, Dassault Systèmes, DELL, Duck Creek, Google, Guidewire, IBM/Redhat, Intel, Majesco, Microsoft, Mistral AI, Nvidia, OpenText, Oracle, Pega, PTC, Qualcomm, Salesforce, SAP, Schneider Electric, Siemens, ServiceNow, Tenemos, UiPath, Unity, Verizon, and VMware. The company was incorporated in 1967 and is headquartered in Paris, France.