TDW vs. FTI, NOV, OII, HLX, RES, NR, DRQ, TTI, OIS, and NGS
Should you be buying Tidewater stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tidewater include TechnipFMC (FTI), NOV (NOV), Oceaneering International (OII), Helix Energy Solutions Group (HLX), RPC (RES), Newpark Resources (NR), Dril-Quip (DRQ), TETRA Technologies (TTI), Oil States International (OIS), and Natural Gas Services Group (NGS). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas equipment & services" industry.
Tidewater (NYSE:TDW) and TechnipFMC (NYSE:FTI) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, profitability, dividends, earnings, community ranking and media sentiment.
TechnipFMC received 231 more outperform votes than Tidewater when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.23% of users gave Tidewater an outperform vote while only 58.00% of users gave TechnipFMC an outperform vote.
In the previous week, TechnipFMC had 21 more articles in the media than Tidewater. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for TechnipFMC and 6 mentions for Tidewater. TechnipFMC's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Tidewater's score of 0.55 indicating that TechnipFMC is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Tidewater has a beta of 1.2, meaning that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TechnipFMC has a beta of 1.52, meaning that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.
95.1% of Tidewater shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.6% of TechnipFMC shares are held by institutional investors. 8.3% of Tidewater shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of TechnipFMC shares are held by 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.
Tidewater currently has a consensus price target of $102.33, indicating a potential upside of 3.96%. TechnipFMC has a consensus price target of $28.62, indicating a potential downside of 0.86%. Given Tidewater's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Tidewater is more favorable than TechnipFMC.
Tidewater has a net margin of 11.73% compared to TechnipFMC's net margin of 2.61%. Tidewater's return on equity of 16.24% beat TechnipFMC's return on equity.
Tidewater has higher earnings, but lower revenue than TechnipFMC. Tidewater is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TechnipFMC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Tidewater beats TechnipFMC on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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