PFC vs. GMS, SAVE, KIST, JSE, I3E, CNE, NWF, TXP, PHAR, and AET
Should you be buying Petrofac stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Petrofac include Gulf Marine Services (GMS), Savannah Energy (SAVE), Kistos (KIST), Jadestone Energy (JSE), i3 Energy (I3E), Capricorn Energy (CNE), NWF Group (NWF), Touchstone Exploration (TXP), Pharos Energy (PHAR), and Afentra (AET). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
Gulf Marine Services (LON:GMS) and Petrofac (LON:PFC) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking and risk.
3.2% of Gulf Marine Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.2% of Petrofac shares are held by institutional investors. 65.2% of Gulf Marine Services shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.6% of Petrofac shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Gulf Marine Services had 1 more articles in the media than Petrofac. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Gulf Marine Services and 0 mentions for Petrofac. Petrofac's average media sentiment score of 1.82 beat Gulf Marine Services' score of 0.00 indicating that Gulf Marine Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Gulf Marine Services has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Petrofac. Petrofac is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gulf Marine Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Petrofac has a consensus target price of GBX 140, suggesting a potential upside of 491.22%. Given Gulf Marine Services' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Petrofac is more favorable than Gulf Marine Services.
Gulf Marine Services has a beta of 1.96, indicating that its stock price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Petrofac has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Gulf Marine Services pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. Petrofac pays an annual dividend of GBX 30 per share and has a dividend yield of 127.4%. Gulf Marine Services pays out 10,000.0% 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 pays out -3,797.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Petrofac is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Petrofac received 452 more outperform votes than Gulf Marine Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 76.19% of users gave Gulf Marine Services an outperform vote while only 71.05% of users gave Petrofac an outperform vote.
Gulf Marine Services has a net margin of 14.58% compared to Gulf Marine Services' net margin of -20.15%. Petrofac's return on equity of 7.35% beat Gulf Marine Services' return on equity.
Summary
Gulf Marine Services beats Petrofac on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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