TDW vs. FTI, NOV, OII, HLX, RES, NR, DRQ, TTI, OIS, and NGS
Should you be buying Tidewater stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tidewater include TechnipFMC (FTI), NOV (NOV), Oceaneering International (OII), Helix Energy Solutions Group (HLX), RPC (RES), Newpark Resources (NR), Dril-Quip (DRQ), TETRA Technologies (TTI), Oil States International (OIS), and Natural Gas Services Group (NGS). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas equipment & services" industry.
Tidewater (NYSE:TDW) and TechnipFMC (NYSE:FTI) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, risk and media sentiment.
TechnipFMC received 229 more outperform votes than Tidewater when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.23% of users gave Tidewater an outperform vote while only 57.93% of users gave TechnipFMC an outperform vote.
Tidewater has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TechnipFMC has a beta of 1.58, indicating that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Tidewater has higher earnings, but lower revenue than TechnipFMC. Tidewater is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TechnipFMC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, TechnipFMC had 7 more articles in the media than Tidewater. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for TechnipFMC and 3 mentions for Tidewater. TechnipFMC's average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat Tidewater's score of 1.11 indicating that TechnipFMC is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Tidewater has a net margin of 11.73% compared to TechnipFMC's net margin of 2.61%. Tidewater's return on equity of 16.24% beat TechnipFMC's return on equity.
95.1% of Tidewater shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.6% of TechnipFMC shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.3% of Tidewater shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of TechnipFMC shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Tidewater presently has a consensus target price of $98.00, indicating a potential upside of 4.84%. TechnipFMC has a consensus target price of $27.21, indicating a potential upside of 12.10%. Given TechnipFMC's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe TechnipFMC is more favorable than Tidewater.
Summary
Tidewater beats TechnipFMC on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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