CoreCivic (NYSE:CXW – Get Free Report) and Team (NYSE:TISI – Get Free Report) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability and valuation.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for CoreCivic and Team, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| CoreCivic | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3.00 |
| Team | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
CoreCivic presently has a consensus target price of $39.40, suggesting a potential upside of 15.02%. Given CoreCivic’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe CoreCivic is more favorable than Team.
Profitability
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| CoreCivic | 5.15% | 9.22% | 3.99% |
| Team | -3.73% | N/A | -4.68% |
Volatility & Risk
CoreCivic has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Team has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares CoreCivic and Team”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| CoreCivic | $2.21 billion | 1.53 | $116.50 million | $1.25 | 27.40 |
| Team | $893.54 million | 0.14 | -$49.21 million | ($9.42) | -2.99 |
CoreCivic has higher revenue and earnings than Team. Team is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CoreCivic, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
85.1% of CoreCivic shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.6% of Team shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of CoreCivic shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.8% of Team shares are held 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.
Summary
CoreCivic beats Team on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About CoreCivic
CoreCivic, Inc. owns and operates partnership correctional, detention, and residential reentry facilities in the United States. It operates through three segments: CoreCivic Safety, CoreCivic Community, and CoreCivic Properties. The company provides a range of solutions to government partners that serve the public good through corrections and detention management, a network of residential reentry centers to help address America’s recidivism crisis, and government real estate solutions. Its correctional, detention, and residential reentry facilities offer rehabilitation and educational programs, including basic education, faith-based services, life skills and employment training, and substance abuse treatment. The company owns and operates correctional and detention facilities, residential reentry centers, and properties for lease. CoreCivic, Inc. was founded in 1983 and is based in Brentwood, Tennessee.
About Team
Team, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides a suite of conventional, specialized, and proprietary mechanical, heat-treating, and inspection services in the United States, Canada, Europe, and internationally. It operates through Inspection and Heat Treating (IHT) and Mechanical Services (MS) segments. The IHT segment offers non-destructive evaluation and testing, radiographic testing, ultrasonic testing, magnetic particle inspection, liquid penetrant inspection, positive material identification, electromagnetic testing, alternating current field measurement, and eddy current testing services. This segment also provides long-range guided ultrasonic, phased array ultrasonic testing, terminals and storage inspection and management program, rope access, mechanical and pipeline integrity, and heat treating services. The MS segment offers engineered composite repair, emissions control/compliance, hot tapping, valve insertion, field machining, bolted joint integrity, vapor barrier plug and weld testing, and valve management services, as well as leak repair services. Team, Inc. was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Sugar Land, Texas.
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