Head to Head Contrast: Legacy Education Alliance (OTCMKTS:LEAI) vs. Bowman Consulting Group (NASDAQ:BWMN)

Legacy Education Alliance (OTCMKTS:LEAI) and Bowman Consulting Group (NASDAQ:BWMN) are both business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends and risk.

Volatility and Risk

Legacy Education Alliance has a beta of -0.05, suggesting that its share price is 105% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bowman Consulting Group has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

63.2% of Bowman Consulting Group shares are held by institutional investors. 13.0% of Legacy Education Alliance shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.4% of Bowman Consulting Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Legacy Education Alliance and Bowman Consulting Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Legacy Education Alliance	N/A	N/A	N/A
Bowman Consulting Group	3.33%	6.30%	3.03%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for Legacy Education Alliance and Bowman Consulting Group, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Legacy Education Alliance	0	0	0	0	0.00
Bowman Consulting Group	0	2	4	1	2.86

Bowman Consulting Group has a consensus price target of $40.90, indicating a potential upside of 21.47%. Given Bowman Consulting Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Bowman Consulting Group is more favorable than Legacy Education Alliance.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Legacy Education Alliance and Bowman Consulting Group”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Legacy Education Alliance	$150,000.00	N/A	-$2.62 million	($0.07)	0.00
Bowman Consulting Group	$426.56 million	1.37	$3.03 million	$0.93	36.20

Bowman Consulting Group has higher revenue and earnings than Legacy Education Alliance. Legacy Education Alliance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bowman Consulting Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Bowman Consulting Group beats Legacy Education Alliance on 14 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Legacy Education Alliance

Legacy Education Alliance, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides educational training on the topics of personal finance, entrepreneurship, real estate, and financial markets investing strategies and techniques in North America, the United Kingdom, and internationally. The company markets its products and services under the Building Wealth with Legacy and Homemade Investor by Tarek El Moussa brands. It provides its programs through various formats and channels, including free workshops, basic trainings, forums, telephone mentoring, one-on-one mentoring, coaching, and e-learning. Legacy Education Alliance, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Cape Coral, Florida.

About Bowman Consulting Group

Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. provides a range of real estate, energy, infrastructure, and environmental management solutions in the United States. It offers civil and site engineering services, such as conceptual land planning, environmental consulting and permitting, planning/zoning and entitlements, roadway and highway designs, erosion and sediment designs, stormwater management designs, construction administration, traffic studies, floodplain studies, and utility relocation designs; and commissioning and energy efficiency services comprise construction observation, direct systems functional performance testing, system development readiness checklist, post occupancy review, review of construction documents, deferred/seasonal functional testing, final commissioning report, and commissioning review of submittals. The company also provides construction management services, including constructability review, value engineering, budgeting and cost estimating, interagency and utility coordination, onsite observation and report evaluation, public communication and outreach, and resident engineer services, as well as bid solicitation, documentation, and preparation services; and environmental consulting services consisting of wetlands and waters of the U.S. delineations, natural resources inventories, wildlife and vegetation surveys, threatened and endangered species surveys, endangered species conservation and management, wetland creation and enhancement design, NEPA documentation, section 404/401 permitting and compliance, NPDES permitting, and phase I environmental site assessment. In addition, it offers landscape architecture, land procurement and right-of-way acquisition, structural engineering, surveying and geospatial engineering, and transportation and water resources engineering services, as well as mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering services. The company was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia.