RPC (RES) Competitors

Tidewater (NYSE:TDW) and RPC (NYSE:RES) are both energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, dividends, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Do analysts recommend TDW or RES?

Tidewater presently has a consensus target price of $69.33, suggesting a potential upside of 45.78%. RPC has a consensus target price of $5.75, suggesting a potential upside of 17.71%. Given Tidewater's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Tidewater is more favorable than RPC.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Tidewater	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50
RPC	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in TDW or RES?

95.1% of Tidewater shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.1% of RPC shares are held by institutional investors. 8.3% of Tidewater shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 60.5% of RPC shares are held by company 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.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer TDW or RES?

Tidewater received 60 more outperform votes than RPC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.87% of users gave Tidewater an outperform vote while only 54.25% of users gave RPC an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Tidewater	Outperform Votes 462 60.87%	Underperform Votes 297 39.13%
RPC	Outperform Votes 402 54.25%	Underperform Votes 339 45.75%

Which has more risk & volatility, TDW or RES?

Tidewater has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RPC has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is TDW or RES a better dividend stock?

Tidewater pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. RPC pays an annual dividend of $0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Tidewater pays out 29.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. RPC pays out 44.4% 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.

Which has preferable valuation & earnings, TDW or RES?

Tidewater has higher earnings, but lower revenue than RPC. RPC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tidewater, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Tidewater	$1.36B	1.73	$97.18M	$3.34	14.24
RPC	$1.37B	0.79	$91.44M	$0.36	13.57

Is TDW or RES more profitable?

Tidewater has a net margin of 13.92% compared to RPC's net margin of 6.46%. Tidewater's return on equity of 18.16% beat RPC's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Tidewater	13.92%	18.16%	9.40%
RPC	6.46%	8.62%	6.85%

Does the media refer more to TDW or RES?

In the previous week, Tidewater had 10 more articles in the media than RPC. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Tidewater and 2 mentions for RPC. RPC's average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat Tidewater's score of 1.05 indicating that RPC is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Tidewater	6 Very Positive mention(s)	3 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
RPC	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Tidewater beats RPC on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.