WG vs. TTE, SEPL, TGA, SQZ, ITH, YCA, AT, HTG, EGY, and TLW
Should you be buying John Wood Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of John Wood Group include TotalEnergies (TTE), Seplat Energy (SEPL), Thungela Resources (TGA), Serica Energy (SQZ), Ithaca Energy (ITH), Yellow Cake (YCA), Ashtead Technology (AT), Hunting (HTG), VAALCO Energy (EGY), and Tullow Oil (TLW). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
TotalEnergies (LON:TTE) and John Wood Group (LON:WG) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings and risk.
John Wood Group received 552 more outperform votes than TotalEnergies when rated by MarketBeat users.
In the previous week, TotalEnergies had 9 more articles in the media than John Wood Group. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for TotalEnergies and 1 mentions for John Wood Group. John Wood Group's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat TotalEnergies' score of -0.72 indicating that TotalEnergies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
John Wood Group has a consensus price target of GBX 187.50, indicating a potential upside of 27.29%. Given TotalEnergies' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe John Wood Group is more favorable than TotalEnergies.
TotalEnergies pays an annual dividend of GBX 316 per share and has a dividend yield of 465.5%. John Wood Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 28 per share and has a dividend yield of 19.0%. TotalEnergies pays out 3,910.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. John Wood Group pays out -18,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
TotalEnergies has a net margin of 9.77% compared to TotalEnergies' net margin of -1.88%. John Wood Group's return on equity of 18.38% beat TotalEnergies' return on equity.
TotalEnergies has higher revenue and earnings than John Wood Group. John Wood Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TotalEnergies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
44.5% of TotalEnergies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 105.5% of John Wood Group shares are held by institutional investors. 7.5% of TotalEnergies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of John Wood Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
TotalEnergies has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, John Wood Group has a beta of 1.55, indicating that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
TotalEnergies beats John Wood Group on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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