NOV vs. SOFI, DUOL, RHI, SPSC, FCN, ULS, WEX, SPXC, CART, and KD
Should you be buying NOV stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NOV include SoFi Technologies (SOFI), Duolingo (DUOL), Robert Half (RHI), SPS Commerce (SPSC), FTI Consulting (FCN), UL Solutions (ULS), WEX (WEX), SPX Technologies (SPXC), Maplebear (CART), and Kyndryl (KD). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
NOV (NYSE:NOV) and SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ:SOFI) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability and dividends.
93.3% of NOV shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.4% of SoFi Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of NOV shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of SoFi Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
NOV has higher revenue and earnings than SoFi Technologies. SoFi Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NOV, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NOV currently has a consensus target price of $24.07, indicating a potential upside of 29.77%. SoFi Technologies has a consensus target price of $9.08, indicating a potential upside of 31.83%. Given SoFi Technologies' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe SoFi Technologies is more favorable than NOV.
NOV has a beta of 1.74, meaning that its share price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SoFi Technologies has a beta of 1.75, meaning that its share price is 75% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, SoFi Technologies had 19 more articles in the media than NOV. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for SoFi Technologies and 15 mentions for NOV. SoFi Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat NOV's score of 0.24 indicating that SoFi Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
NOV received 1011 more outperform votes than SoFi Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.38% of users gave NOV an outperform vote while only 36.43% of users gave SoFi Technologies an outperform vote.
NOV has a net margin of 11.23% compared to SoFi Technologies' net margin of -8.21%. NOV's return on equity of 10.21% beat SoFi Technologies' return on equity.
Summary
NOV beats SoFi Technologies on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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