HTG vs. AT, GMS, SQZ, DEC, TLW, EGY, TGA, PTAL, SAVE, and SEPL
Should you be buying Hunting stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hunting include Ashtead Technology (AT), Gulf Marine Services (GMS), Serica Energy (SQZ), Diversified Energy (DEC), Tullow Oil (TLW), VAALCO Energy (EGY), Thungela Resources (TGA), PetroTal (PTAL), Savannah Energy (SAVE), and Seplat Energy (SEPL). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
Hunting (LON:HTG) and Ashtead Technology (LON:AT) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, dividends and institutional ownership.
Hunting received 433 more outperform votes than Ashtead Technology when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Ashtead Technology an outperform vote while only 59.65% of users gave Hunting an outperform vote.
Ashtead Technology has a net margin of 18.85% compared to Hunting's net margin of 12.60%. Ashtead Technology's return on equity of 22.43% beat Hunting's return on equity.
Hunting has higher revenue and earnings than Ashtead Technology. Hunting is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ashtead Technology, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hunting has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ashtead Technology has a beta of 0.32, meaning that its share price is 68% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Hunting pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Ashtead Technology pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Hunting pays out 1,428.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ashtead Technology pays out 476.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
59.2% of Hunting shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.3% of Ashtead Technology shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.8% of Hunting shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Ashtead Technology shares are owned by 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.
In the previous week, Ashtead Technology had 1 more articles in the media than Hunting. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Ashtead Technology and 2 mentions for Hunting. Ashtead Technology's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Hunting's score of 0.30 indicating that Ashtead Technology is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Hunting presently has a consensus price target of GBX 407, indicating a potential upside of 8.97%. Ashtead Technology has a consensus price target of GBX 775, indicating a potential downside of 8.50%. Given Hunting's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Hunting is more favorable than Ashtead Technology.
Summary
Ashtead Technology beats Hunting on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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