Financial Review: Skyline Builders Group (NASDAQ:SKBL) vs. Ameresco (NYSE:AMRC)

Skyline Builders Group (NASDAQ:SKBL) and Ameresco (NYSE:AMRC) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, valuation and institutional ownership.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings for Skyline Builders Group and Ameresco, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Skyline Builders Group	0	0	0	0	0.00
Ameresco	1	3	3	1	2.50

Ameresco has a consensus target price of $22.83, suggesting a potential upside of 112.40%. Given Ameresco’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ameresco is more favorable than Skyline Builders Group.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Skyline Builders Group and Ameresco”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Skyline Builders Group	$49.64 million	7.05	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ameresco	$1.77 billion	0.32	$62.47 million	$1.06	10.14

Ameresco has higher revenue and earnings than Skyline Builders Group.

Profitability

This table compares Skyline Builders Group and Ameresco’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Skyline Builders Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ameresco	3.18%	5.68%	1.38%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

99.2% of Ameresco shares are held by institutional investors. 42.0% of Ameresco shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Ameresco beats Skyline Builders Group on 10 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Skyline Builders Group

Skyline Builders Group Holding Ltd. operates as an exempted limited liability company. It operates business through its subsidiary, Kin Chiu Engineering Limited, which provides construction activities include public civil engineering works, such as road and drainage works in Hong Kong. The company was founded on June 25, 2024 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.

About Ameresco

Ameresco, Inc., a clean technology integrator, provides a portfolio of energy efficiency and renewable energy supply solutions in the United States, Canada, Europe, and internationally. It operates through U.S. Regions, U.S. Federal, Canada, Europe, Alternative Fuels, and All Other segments. The company offers energy efficiency, infrastructure upgrades, energy security and resilience, asset sustainability, and renewable energy solutions for businesses and organizations. It designs, develops, engineers, and installs projects that reduce the energy, as well as operations and maintenance (O&M) costs of its customers' facilities; and projects primarily include various measures customized for the facility and designed to enhance the efficiency of building systems, such as heating, ventilation, cooling, and lighting systems. In addition, the company offers renewable energy solutions and services, such as the construction of small-scale plants that the company owns or develops for customers that produce electricity, gas, heat, or cooling from renewable sources of energy and O&M services; and electricity, processed renewable gas fuel, and heat or cooling produced from renewable sources of energy. Further, the company sells photovoltaic (PV) solar energy products and systems, as well as provides consulting, and enterprise energy management services; and operates wind farms. It serves the federal, state, local governments, healthcare and educational institutions, airports, public housing authorities and public universities, municipal utilities, and commercial and industrial customers. As of December 31, 2023, the company owned and operated 185 small-scale renewable energy plants and solar PV installations. Ameresco, Inc. was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts.