NOV vs. HAL, FTI, TDW, OII, HLX, RES, NR, DRQ, TTI, and OIS
Should you be buying NOV stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NOV include Halliburton (HAL), TechnipFMC (FTI), Tidewater (TDW), Oceaneering International (OII), Helix Energy Solutions Group (HLX), RPC (RES), Newpark Resources (NR), Dril-Quip (DRQ), TETRA Technologies (TTI), and Oil States International (OIS). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas equipment & services" industry.
Halliburton (NYSE:HAL) and NOV (NYSE:NOV) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk and valuation.
Halliburton presently has a consensus target price of $45.53, indicating a potential upside of 32.35%. NOV has a consensus target price of $24.07, indicating a potential upside of 21.14%. Given NOV's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Halliburton is more favorable than NOV.
Halliburton received 861 more outperform votes than NOV when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.60% of users gave Halliburton an outperform vote while only 62.33% of users gave NOV an outperform vote.
Halliburton has a net margin of 11.61% compared to Halliburton's net margin of 11.23%. NOV's return on equity of 29.97% beat Halliburton's return on equity.
In the previous week, Halliburton had 39 more articles in the media than NOV. MarketBeat recorded 70 mentions for Halliburton and 31 mentions for NOV. Halliburton's average media sentiment score of 0.24 beat NOV's score of 0.05 indicating that NOV is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
85.2% of Halliburton shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.3% of NOV shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Halliburton shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of NOV shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Halliburton pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. NOV pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Halliburton pays out 23.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. NOV pays out 12.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Halliburton has higher revenue and earnings than NOV. NOV is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Halliburton, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Halliburton has a beta of 1.93, suggesting that its stock price is 93% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NOV has a beta of 1.7, suggesting that its stock price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Halliburton beats NOV on 17 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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