NOV vs. FOUR, FCN, SOFI, SPSC, VNT, KVYO, TNET, G, RCM, and RHI
Should you be buying NOV stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NOV include Shift4 Payments (FOUR), FTI Consulting (FCN), SoFi Technologies (SOFI), SPS Commerce (SPSC), Vontier (VNT), Klaviyo (KVYO), TriNet Group (TNET), Genpact (G), R1 RCM (RCM), and Robert Half (RHI). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
NOV (NYSE:NOV) and Shift4 Payments (NYSE:FOUR) 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 media sentiment, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
NOV received 992 more outperform votes than Shift4 Payments when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.34% of users gave NOV an outperform vote while only 53.78% of users gave Shift4 Payments an outperform vote.
93.2% of NOV shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.8% of Shift4 Payments shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of NOV shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 32.1% of Shift4 Payments shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
NOV has a net margin of 11.57% compared to Shift4 Payments' net margin of 3.36%. Shift4 Payments' return on equity of 27.35% beat NOV's return on equity.
NOV presently has a consensus target price of $24.36, indicating a potential upside of 31.16%. Shift4 Payments has a consensus target price of $84.82, indicating a potential upside of 17.27%. Given NOV's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe NOV is more favorable than Shift4 Payments.
In the previous week, NOV had 32 more articles in the media than Shift4 Payments. MarketBeat recorded 55 mentions for NOV and 23 mentions for Shift4 Payments. Shift4 Payments' average media sentiment score of 0.14 beat NOV's score of 0.10 indicating that Shift4 Payments is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
NOV has a beta of 1.73, meaning that its share price is 73% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shift4 Payments has a beta of 1.61, meaning that its share price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500.
NOV has higher revenue and earnings than Shift4 Payments. NOV is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shift4 Payments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
NOV beats Shift4 Payments on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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