RES vs. TDW, OII, HLX, NR, DRQ, TTI, OIS, NGS, FET, and GEOS
Should you be buying RPC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RPC include Tidewater (TDW), Oceaneering International (OII), Helix Energy Solutions Group (HLX), 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.
Tidewater (NYSE:TDW) and RPC (NYSE:RES) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Tidewater currently has a consensus price target of $98.00, indicating a potential downside of 4.85%. RPC has a consensus price target of $7.50, indicating a potential upside of 15.21%. Given Tidewater's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe RPC is more favorable than Tidewater.
Tidewater has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RPC has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Tidewater had 7 more articles in the media than RPC. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Tidewater and 1 mentions for RPC. RPC's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Tidewater's score of 0.00 indicating that Tidewater is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Tidewater pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. RPC pays an annual dividend of $0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Tidewater pays out 39.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. RPC pays out 22.9% 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. RPC has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. RPC is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Tidewater has a net margin of 11.73% compared to Tidewater's net margin of 9.95%. RPC's return on equity of 16.24% beat Tidewater's return on equity.
95.1% of Tidewater shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.1% of RPC shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.3% of Tidewater shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 60.4% of RPC shares are owned 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.
Tidewater received 56 more outperform votes than RPC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.23% of users gave Tidewater an outperform vote while only 54.84% of users gave RPC an outperform vote.
RPC has higher revenue and earnings than Tidewater. RPC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tidewater, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Tidewater beats RPC on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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