HTG vs. AT, GMS, PFC, CNEL, TAND, POS, PRES, NTQ, ADES, and VLS
Should you be buying Hunting stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hunting include Ashtead Technology (AT), Gulf Marine Services (GMS), Petrofac (PFC), China New Energy Limited (CNEL.L) (CNEL), Tan Delta Systems (TAND), Plexus (POS), Pressure Technologies (PRES), Enteq Technologies (NTQ), ADES International (ADES), and Velocys (VLS). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas equipment & services" industry.
Ashtead Technology (LON:AT) and Hunting (LON:HTG) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.
Ashtead Technology pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Hunting pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Ashtead Technology pays out 370.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Hunting pays out 1,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
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 received 438 more outperform votes than Ashtead Technology when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Ashtead Technology an outperform vote while only 60.03% of users gave Hunting an outperform vote.
73.1% of Ashtead Technology shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.6% of Hunting shares are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of Ashtead Technology shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 18.3% of Hunting shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ashtead Technology has a beta of 0.34, suggesting that its stock price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hunting has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ashtead Technology has a net margin of 19.53% compared to Hunting's net margin of 14.07%. Ashtead Technology's return on equity of 25.02% beat Hunting's return on equity.
Ashtead Technology currently has a consensus target price of GBX 817.50, suggesting a potential upside of 45.46%. Hunting has a consensus target price of GBX 490, suggesting a potential upside of 20.25%. Given Ashtead Technology's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Ashtead Technology is more favorable than Hunting.
In the previous week, Ashtead Technology and Ashtead Technology both had 2 articles in the media. Ashtead Technology's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Hunting's score of 0.64 indicating that Ashtead Technology is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Ashtead Technology beats Hunting on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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