Schlumberger (NYSE:SLB) Vs. HAL, NOV, FTI, OII, RES, DRQ, HLX, TDW, TTI, and OIS
Should you be buying Schlumberger stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Schlumberger include Halliburton (HAL), NOV (NOV), TechnipFMC (FTI), Oceaneering International (OII), RPC (RES), Dril-Quip (DRQ), Helix Energy Solutions Group (HLX), Tidewater (TDW), TETRA Technologies (TTI), and Oil States International (OIS). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas equipment & services" industry.
Schlumberger vs.
NOV (NYSE:NOV) and Schlumberger (NYSE:SLB) are both business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
NOV currently has a consensus target price of $15.91, indicating a potential upside of 6.84%. Schlumberger has a consensus target price of $33.81, indicating a potential downside of 0.28%. Given NOV's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe NOV is more favorable than Schlumberger.
Schlumberger received 584 more outperform votes than NOV when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.93% of users gave Schlumberger an outperform vote while only 64.29% of users gave NOV an outperform vote.
Schlumberger has a net margin of 4.72% compared to NOV's net margin of -10.10%. Schlumberger's return on equity of 9.96% beat NOV's return on equity.
NOV pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Schlumberger pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. NOV pays out -55.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Schlumberger pays out 73.5% 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. Schlumberger has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Schlumberger is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
NOV has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Schlumberger. NOV is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Schlumberger, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
92.9% of NOV shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.3% of Schlumberger shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of NOV shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Schlumberger shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Schlumberger had 16 more articles in the media than NOV. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for Schlumberger and 19 mentions for NOV. Schlumberger's average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat NOV's score of 0.24 indicating that Schlumberger is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
NOV has a beta of 2.31, suggesting that its share price is 131% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Schlumberger has a beta of 2.39, suggesting that its share price is 139% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Schlumberger beats NOV on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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