TDW vs. RIG, VAL, CWEN, PTEN, SSL, MGY, NOG, CPG, BEPC, and ETRN
Should you be buying Tidewater stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tidewater include Transocean (RIG), Valaris (VAL), Clearway Energy (CWEN), Patterson-UTI Energy (PTEN), Sasol (SSL), Magnolia Oil & Gas (MGY), Northern Oil and Gas (NOG), Crescent Point Energy (CPG), Brookfield Renewable (BEPC), and Equitrans Midstream (ETRN).
Transocean (NYSE:RIG) and Tidewater (NYSE:TDW) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, risk and earnings.
Tidewater has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Transocean. Transocean is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tidewater, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Transocean had 12 more articles in the media than Tidewater. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Transocean and 4 mentions for Tidewater. Transocean's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Tidewater's score of 0.24 indicating that Tidewater is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Transocean currently has a consensus price target of $7.78, suggesting a potential upside of 49.14%. Tidewater has a consensus price target of $93.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1.26%. Given Tidewater's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Transocean is more favorable than Tidewater.
Transocean received 457 more outperform votes than Tidewater when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.18% of users gave Tidewater an outperform vote while only 51.70% of users gave Transocean an outperform vote.
Tidewater has a net margin of 9.62% compared to Tidewater's net margin of -33.69%. Transocean's return on equity of 13.37% beat Tidewater's return on equity.
Transocean has a beta of 2.77, suggesting that its stock price is 177% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tidewater has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
67.7% of Transocean shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.1% of Tidewater shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.5% of Transocean shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.6% of Tidewater shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Tidewater beats Transocean on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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