Reviewing Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE:BAH) & ALS (OTCMKTS:CPBLF)

ALS (OTCMKTS:CPBLF) and Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE:BAH) are both industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings and risk.

Dividends

ALS pays an annual dividend of $0.39 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Booz Allen Hamilton pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. ALS pays out 134.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Booz Allen Hamilton pays out 44.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Booz Allen Hamilton has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings for ALS and Booz Allen Hamilton, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
ALS	0	0	0	0	N/A
Booz Allen Hamilton	1	2	7	0	2.60

Booz Allen Hamilton has a consensus target price of $156.56, suggesting a potential upside of 6.02%. Given Booz Allen Hamilton’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Booz Allen Hamilton is more favorable than ALS.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares ALS and Booz Allen Hamilton’s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
ALS	N/A	N/A	N/A	$0.29	29.44
Booz Allen Hamilton	$10.95 billion	1.74	$605.71 million	$4.60	32.10

Booz Allen Hamilton has higher revenue and earnings than ALS. ALS is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Booz Allen Hamilton, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

23.2% of ALS shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.8% of Booz Allen Hamilton shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Booz Allen Hamilton shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares ALS and Booz Allen Hamilton’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
ALS	N/A	N/A	N/A
Booz Allen Hamilton	5.57%	65.80%	10.51%

Summary

Booz Allen Hamilton beats ALS on 12 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About ALS

ALS Limited provides professional technical services primarily in the areas of testing, measurement, and inspection in Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas. It operates in two segments, Commodities and Life Sciences. The Commodities segment offers assaying and analytical testing, and metallurgical services for the mining and mineral exploration companies. Its testing and consulting services cover the resource life cycle, including exploration, feasibility, optimization, production, design, development, trade, and rehabilitation. This segment also provides coal sampling, analysis and certification, formation evaluation, and related analytical testing services. The Life Sciences segment offers analytical testing and sampling, and remote monitoring services for the environmental, food, pharmaceutical, and consumer products markets; and microbiological, physical, and chemical testing services. This segment provides analytical testing data to assist consulting and engineering firms, industries, and governments. ALS Limited was founded in 1863 and is headquartered in Brisbane, Australia.

About Booz Allen Hamilton

Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation provides management and technology consulting, analytics, engineering, digital solutions, mission operations, and cyber services to governments, corporations, and not-for-profit organizations in the United States and internationally. It focuses on artificial intelligence services comprising of machine learning, predictive modeling, automation and decision analytics, and quantum computing. The company offers artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computer network related operations. In addition, it provides data science, engineering, visualization, and analysis related capabilities. Further, the company engages in user experience, user interface, graphic and web design, design thinking, sketching, and digital product design capabilities. Additionally, it architects and engineers help accelerate, scale, secure, and transform mission and business outcomes using the technologies and partner offering; offers software engineering in agile practices, DevSecOps, automation and Cloud, and Low/No Code Platform engineering; systems and digital engineering; and tech strategy and product management. Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation was founded in 1914 and is headquartered in McLean, Virginia.