OII vs. NOV, TDW, HLX, RES, NR, DRQ, TTI, OIS, NGS, and FET
Should you be buying Oceaneering International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Oceaneering International include NOV (NOV), Tidewater (TDW), Helix Energy Solutions Group (HLX), RPC (RES), Newpark Resources (NR), Dril-Quip (DRQ), TETRA Technologies (TTI), Oil States International (OIS), Natural Gas Services Group (NGS), and Forum Energy Technologies (FET). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas equipment & services" industry.
NOV (NYSE:NOV) and Oceaneering International (NYSE:OII) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and dividends.
93.3% of NOV shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.9% of Oceaneering International shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of NOV shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Oceaneering International shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
NOV has a beta of 1.7, suggesting that its share price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Oceaneering International has a beta of 2.39, suggesting that its share price is 139% more volatile than the S&P 500.
NOV received 556 more outperform votes than Oceaneering International when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.37% of users gave NOV an outperform vote while only 57.42% of users gave Oceaneering International an outperform vote.
In the previous week, NOV had 18 more articles in the media than Oceaneering International. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for NOV and 12 mentions for Oceaneering International. Oceaneering International's average media sentiment score of 0.24 beat NOV's score of -0.18 indicating that NOV is being referred to more favorably in the media.
NOV currently has a consensus price target of $24.07, suggesting a potential upside of 21.14%. Oceaneering International has a consensus price target of $27.67, suggesting a potential downside of 5.19%. Given Oceaneering International's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe NOV is more favorable than Oceaneering International.
NOV has higher revenue and earnings than Oceaneering International. NOV is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Oceaneering International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NOV has a net margin of 11.23% compared to NOV's net margin of 4.87%. NOV's return on equity of 16.08% beat Oceaneering International's return on equity.
Summary
NOV beats Oceaneering International on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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