HLX vs. TDW, OII, RES, NR, DRQ, TTI, OIS, NGS, FET, and GEOS
Should you be buying Helix Energy Solutions Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Helix Energy Solutions Group include Tidewater (TDW), Oceaneering International (OII), RPC (RES), Newpark Resources (NR), Dril-Quip (DRQ), TETRA Technologies (TTI), Oil States International (OIS), Natural Gas Services Group (NGS), Forum Energy Technologies (FET), and Geospace Technologies (GEOS). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas equipment & services" industry.
Helix Energy Solutions Group (NYSE:HLX) and Tidewater (NYSE:TDW) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings and profitability.
Tidewater has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Helix Energy Solutions Group. Helix Energy Solutions Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tidewater, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Tidewater received 15 more outperform votes than Helix Energy Solutions Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.23% of users gave Tidewater an outperform vote while only 59.30% of users gave Helix Energy Solutions Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Tidewater had 8 more articles in the media than Helix Energy Solutions Group. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Tidewater and 0 mentions for Helix Energy Solutions Group. Helix Energy Solutions Group's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Tidewater's score of 0.69 indicating that Helix Energy Solutions Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
91.3% of Helix Energy Solutions Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.1% of Tidewater shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.4% of Helix Energy Solutions Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.3% of Tidewater shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Helix Energy Solutions Group has a beta of 2.5, indicating that its share price is 150% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tidewater has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Tidewater has a net margin of 11.73% compared to Helix Energy Solutions Group's net margin of -2.39%. Tidewater's return on equity of 16.24% beat Helix Energy Solutions Group's return on equity.
Helix Energy Solutions Group presently has a consensus target price of $14.67, suggesting a potential upside of 27.43%. Tidewater has a consensus target price of $98.00, suggesting a potential downside of 5.16%. Given Helix Energy Solutions Group's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Helix Energy Solutions Group is more favorable than Tidewater.
Summary
Tidewater beats Helix Energy Solutions Group on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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