TCW vs. CEU, TVK, PSI, SCL, EFX, NOA, TOT, CFW, STEP, and SHLE
Should you be buying Trican Well Service stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Trican Well Service include CES Energy Solutions (CEU), TerraVest Industries (TVK), Pason Systems (PSI), Shawcor (SCL), Enerflex (EFX), North American Construction Group (NOA), Total Energy Services (TOT), Calfrac Well Services (CFW), STEP Energy Services (STEP), and Source Energy Services (SHLE). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas equipment & services" industry.
Trican Well Service (TSE:TCW) and CES Energy Solutions (TSE:CEU) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, valuation, earnings and institutional ownership.
CES Energy Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than Trican Well Service. Trican Well Service is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CES Energy Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Trican Well Service has a beta of 1.82, indicating that its share price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CES Energy Solutions has a beta of 2.41, indicating that its share price is 141% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Trican Well Service pays an annual dividend of C$0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. CES Energy Solutions pays an annual dividend of C$0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Trican Well Service pays out 33.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CES Energy Solutions pays out 16.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
In the previous week, CES Energy Solutions had 1 more articles in the media than Trican Well Service. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for CES Energy Solutions and 1 mentions for Trican Well Service. Trican Well Service's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat CES Energy Solutions' score of 0.56 indicating that Trican Well Service is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Trican Well Service has a net margin of 12.26% compared to CES Energy Solutions' net margin of 8.02%. CES Energy Solutions' return on equity of 26.28% beat Trican Well Service's return on equity.
Trican Well Service received 184 more outperform votes than CES Energy Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.25% of users gave CES Energy Solutions an outperform vote while only 52.60% of users gave Trican Well Service an outperform vote.
Trican Well Service currently has a consensus target price of C$5.46, indicating a potential upside of 21.84%. CES Energy Solutions has a consensus target price of C$7.69, indicating a potential upside of 6.48%. Given Trican Well Service's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Trican Well Service is more favorable than CES Energy Solutions.
13.1% of Trican Well Service shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.2% of CES Energy Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Trican Well Service shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of CES Energy Solutions shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
CES Energy Solutions beats Trican Well Service on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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