PFC vs. MCB, IES, SBSI, RM, CFX, OFG, FCAP, VEL, SOS, and ING
Should you be buying Petrofac stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Petrofac include McBride (MCB), Invinity Energy Systems (IES), Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust (SBSI), RM (RM), Colefax Group (CFX), Octopus Future Generations VCT (OFG), Cavendish Financial (FCAP), Velocity Composites (VEL), Sosandar (SOS), and Ingenta (ING). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Petrofac (LON:PFC) and McBride (LON:MCB) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
Petrofac received 286 more outperform votes than McBride when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 77.18% of users gave McBride an outperform vote while only 71.05% of users gave Petrofac an outperform vote.
Petrofac has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, McBride has a beta of 1.25, indicating that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
45.5% of Petrofac shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.2% of McBride shares are held by institutional investors. 16.6% of Petrofac shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.5% of McBride shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Petrofac pays an annual dividend of GBX 30 per share and has a dividend yield of 136.4%. McBride pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Petrofac pays out -3,846.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. McBride pays out 1,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Petrofac is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
McBride has a net margin of 1.93% compared to Petrofac's net margin of -20.15%. McBride's return on equity of 44.50% beat Petrofac's return on equity.
McBride has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Petrofac. Petrofac is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than McBride, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, McBride had 14 more articles in the media than Petrofac. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for McBride and 2 mentions for Petrofac. Petrofac's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat McBride's score of 0.12 indicating that Petrofac is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
McBride beats Petrofac on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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