NOV vs. SOFI, PSN, FCN, COHR, STN, SPSC, CFLT, VNT, TNET, and DUOL
Should you be buying NOV stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NOV include SoFi Technologies (SOFI), Parsons (PSN), FTI Consulting (FCN), Coherent (COHR), Stantec (STN), SPS Commerce (SPSC), Confluent (CFLT), Vontier (VNT), TriNet Group (TNET), and Duolingo (DUOL). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ:SOFI) and NOV (NYSE:NOV) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, valuation, earnings and dividends.
NOV has a net margin of 11.57% compared to NOV's net margin of -14.65%. SoFi Technologies' return on equity of 10.79% beat NOV's return on equity.
NOV has higher revenue and earnings than SoFi Technologies. SoFi Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NOV, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SoFi Technologies has a beta of 1.75, indicating that its share price is 75% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NOV has a beta of 1.74, indicating that its share price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SoFi Technologies presently has a consensus target price of $9.08, suggesting a potential upside of 27.40%. NOV has a consensus target price of $24.36, suggesting a potential upside of 31.66%. Given SoFi Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe NOV is more favorable than SoFi Technologies.
38.4% of SoFi Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.3% of NOV shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.7% of SoFi Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of NOV shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
NOV received 1011 more outperform votes than SoFi Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.36% of users gave NOV an outperform vote while only 36.51% of users gave SoFi Technologies an outperform vote.
In the previous week, SoFi Technologies had 4 more articles in the media than NOV. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for SoFi Technologies and 16 mentions for NOV. NOV's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat SoFi Technologies' score of 0.23 indicating that SoFi Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
NOV beats SoFi Technologies on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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