BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON HOLDING CORPORATION vs STANTEC INC., two Consulting stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
The balance sheets could belong to different industries: Booz Allen runs 3.58 of debt to equity, a consultancy geared like a utility, while Stantec carries essentially nothing. The market's verdict inverts the caution: Stantec trades at 22.4 times earnings, priced for engineering backlog growth, and Booz Allen at 9 times, priced for its federal advisory book to shrink. Cash flow sides with the cheap one, a 12.6% free-cash yield and 3.6% dividend at Booz Allen against 8% and none at Stantec. Booz Allen's 77% return on equity is leverage arithmetic on a thin base; its 12% return on assets is the real economics. One price fears the client; the other trusts the pipeline.
Comparison updated 2026-07-10.
| Metric | BAH | STN |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $62.18 | $69.32 |
| Market cap | $7.5B | $7.9B |
| Sector | Consulting | Consulting |
| Stage | Mature | Growth |
| P/E | 9.0 | 22.4 |
| P/B | 6.83 | 3.32 |
| P/S | 0.67 | 1.32 |
| EV/EBITDA | 9.0 | — |
| Revenue growth | -6.3% | +15.6% |
| Operating margin | 9.4% | — |
| Net margin | 7.6% | 5.9% |
| Return on equity | 77.0% | 14.8% |
| Return on assets | 12.0% | 6.0% |
| Return on invested capital | 18.5% | — |
| FCF yield | 12.6% | 8.0% |
| Dividend yield | 3.6% | — |
| Debt / equity | 3.58 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 1.78 | 1.23 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 3.39 | 2.47 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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