PD vs. ESI, PHX, TVK, EFR, BIR, CEU, PSI, KEL, CJ, and AAV
Should you be buying Precision Drilling stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Precision Drilling include Ensign Energy Services (ESI), PHX Energy Services (PHX), TerraVest Industries (TVK), Energy Fuels (EFR), Birchcliff Energy (BIR), CES Energy Solutions (CEU), Pason Systems (PSI), Kelt Exploration (KEL), Cardinal Energy (CJ), and Advantage Energy (AAV). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
Ensign Energy Services (TSE:ESI) and Precision Drilling (TSE:PD) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings and institutional ownership.
Precision Drilling received 375 more outperform votes than Ensign Energy Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.01% of users gave Precision Drilling an outperform vote while only 44.06% of users gave Ensign Energy Services an outperform vote.
Precision Drilling has higher revenue and earnings than Ensign Energy Services. Precision Drilling is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ensign Energy Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
4.9% of Ensign Energy Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.6% of Precision Drilling shares are held by institutional investors. 26.8% of Ensign Energy Services shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Precision Drilling shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Precision Drilling has a net margin of 12.06% compared to Precision Drilling's net margin of 2.30%. Ensign Energy Services' return on equity of 15.46% beat Precision Drilling's return on equity.
Ensign Energy Services has a beta of 3.1, suggesting that its share price is 210% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Precision Drilling has a beta of 2.9, suggesting that its share price is 190% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Ensign Energy Services had 6 more articles in the media than Precision Drilling. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Ensign Energy Services and 2 mentions for Precision Drilling. Ensign Energy Services' average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Precision Drilling's score of 0.01 indicating that Precision Drilling is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ensign Energy Services presently has a consensus price target of C$3.88, suggesting a potential upside of 64.19%. Precision Drilling has a consensus price target of C$127.09, suggesting a potential upside of 30.60%. Given Precision Drilling's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Ensign Energy Services is more favorable than Precision Drilling.
Ensign Energy Services pays an annual dividend of C$0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.3%. Precision Drilling pays an annual dividend of C$0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Ensign Energy Services pays out 109.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Precision Drilling pays out 1.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Precision Drilling beats Ensign Energy Services on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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