NOA vs. TCW, EFX, TOT, CFW, PSI, STEP, TVK, SHLE, CEU, and SGY
Should you be buying North American Construction Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of North American Construction Group include Trican Well Service (TCW), Enerflex (EFX), Total Energy Services (TOT), Calfrac Well Services (CFW), Pason Systems (PSI), STEP Energy Services (STEP), TerraVest Industries (TVK), Source Energy Services (SHLE), CES Energy Solutions (CEU), and Surge Energy (SGY). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
North American Construction Group (TSE:NOA) and Trican Well Service (TSE:TCW) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, risk, valuation and dividends.
Trican Well Service has a net margin of 12.44% compared to North American Construction Group's net margin of 6.60%. Trican Well Service's return on equity of 23.69% beat North American Construction Group's return on equity.
North American Construction Group has a beta of 1.7, meaning that its share price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Trican Well Service has a beta of 1.82, meaning that its share price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500.
North American Construction Group presently has a consensus target price of C$40.57, suggesting a potential upside of 44.59%. Trican Well Service has a consensus target price of C$5.46, suggesting a potential upside of 30.72%. Given North American Construction Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe North American Construction Group is more favorable than Trican Well Service.
Trican Well Service received 291 more outperform votes than North American Construction Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.30% of users gave North American Construction Group an outperform vote while only 52.60% of users gave Trican Well Service an outperform vote.
North American Construction Group pays an annual dividend of C$0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Trican Well Service pays an annual dividend of C$0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. North American Construction Group pays out 19.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Trican Well Service pays out 32.7% 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.
78.5% of North American Construction Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.2% of Trican Well Service shares are held by institutional investors. 8.4% of North American Construction Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Trican Well Service shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Trican Well Service has higher revenue and earnings than North American Construction Group. Trican Well Service is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than North American Construction Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, North American Construction Group had 11 more articles in the media than Trican Well Service. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for North American Construction Group and 0 mentions for Trican Well Service. North American Construction Group's average media sentiment score of 0.13 beat Trican Well Service's score of 0.00 indicating that North American Construction Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
North American Construction Group beats Trican Well Service on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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