DWSN vs. FTCI, PRT, PVL, BPT, VSTE, INDO, CETY, TYGO, NRT, and NCSM
Should you be buying Dawson Geophysical stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dawson Geophysical include FTC Solar (FTCI), PermRock Royalty Trust (PRT), Permianville Royalty Trust (PVL), BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust (BPT), Vast Renewables (VSTE), Indonesia Energy (INDO), Clean Energy Technologies (CETY), Tigo Energy (TYGO), North European Oil Royalty Trust (NRT), and NCS Multistage (NCSM). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
FTC Solar (NASDAQ:FTCI) and Dawson Geophysical (NASDAQ:DWSN) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.
Dawson Geophysical has lower revenue, but higher earnings than FTC Solar. Dawson Geophysical is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FTC Solar, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
45.4% of FTC Solar shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.9% of Dawson Geophysical shares are held by institutional investors. 29.7% of FTC Solar shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.2% of Dawson Geophysical shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, FTC Solar and FTC Solar both had 1 articles in the media. FTC Solar's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Dawson Geophysical's score of 0.00 indicating that Dawson Geophysical is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Dawson Geophysical received 163 more outperform votes than FTC Solar when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.84% of users gave Dawson Geophysical an outperform vote while only 43.10% of users gave FTC Solar an outperform vote.
FTC Solar presently has a consensus target price of $1.49, suggesting a potential upside of 258.06%. Given Dawson Geophysical's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe FTC Solar is more favorable than Dawson Geophysical.
Dawson Geophysical has a net margin of -12.54% compared to Dawson Geophysical's net margin of -39.60%. FTC Solar's return on equity of -38.29% beat Dawson Geophysical's return on equity.
FTC Solar has a beta of 1.62, meaning that its stock price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dawson Geophysical has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
FTC Solar beats Dawson Geophysical on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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