GEOS vs. NGS, OIS, FET, GIFI, DWSN, SLB, HAL, FTI, NOV, and TDW
Should you be buying Geospace Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Geospace Technologies include Natural Gas Services Group (NGS), Oil States International (OIS), Forum Energy Technologies (FET), Gulf Island Fabrication (GIFI), Dawson Geophysical (DWSN), Schlumberger (SLB), Halliburton (HAL), TechnipFMC (FTI), NOV (NOV), and Tidewater (TDW). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas equipment & services" industry.
Geospace Technologies vs.
Natural Gas Services Group (NYSE:NGS) and Geospace Technologies (NASDAQ:GEOS) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, dividends and profitability.
65.6% of Natural Gas Services Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.2% of Geospace Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.1% of Natural Gas Services Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.6% of Geospace Technologies shares are owned 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.
Natural Gas Services Group has a net margin of 10.55% compared to Geospace Technologies' net margin of -8.86%. Natural Gas Services Group's return on equity of 6.60% beat Geospace Technologies' return on equity.
Natural Gas Services Group received 31 more outperform votes than Geospace Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.32% of users gave Natural Gas Services Group an outperform vote while only 54.61% of users gave Geospace Technologies an outperform vote.
Natural Gas Services Group has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Geospace Technologies has a beta of 0.17, meaning that its share price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Natural Gas Services Group currently has a consensus target price of $32.50, indicating a potential upside of 29.29%. Given Natural Gas Services Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Natural Gas Services Group is more favorable than Geospace Technologies.
Natural Gas Services Group has higher revenue and earnings than Geospace Technologies. Geospace Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Natural Gas Services Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Natural Gas Services Group and Natural Gas Services Group both had 1 articles in the media. Natural Gas Services Group's average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Geospace Technologies' score of 0.00 indicating that Natural Gas Services Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Natural Gas Services Group beats Geospace Technologies on 16 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:GEOS) was last updated on 6/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
