TDW vs. RIG, VAL, PTEN, SUN, SSL, CWEN, CPG, MGY, ETRN, and ERF
Should you be buying Tidewater stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tidewater include Transocean (RIG), Valaris (VAL), Patterson-UTI Energy (PTEN), Sunoco (SUN), Sasol (SSL), Clearway Energy (CWEN), Crescent Point Energy (CPG), Magnolia Oil & Gas (MGY), Equitrans Midstream (ETRN), and Enerplus (ERF). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Tidewater (NYSE:TDW) and Transocean (NYSE:RIG) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
Tidewater has a beta of 1.2, meaning that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Transocean has a beta of 2.77, meaning that its share price is 177% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Tidewater currently has a consensus target price of $93.00, suggesting a potential downside of 1.17%. Transocean has a consensus target price of $8.22, suggesting a potential upside of 38.42%. Given Transocean's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Transocean is more favorable than Tidewater.
In the previous week, Transocean had 4 more articles in the media than Tidewater. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Transocean and 6 mentions for Tidewater. Transocean's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat Tidewater's score of 0.19 indicating that Transocean is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Tidewater has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Transocean. Transocean is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tidewater, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Transocean received 456 more outperform votes than Tidewater when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.18% of users gave Tidewater an outperform vote while only 51.67% of users gave Transocean an outperform vote.
Tidewater has a net margin of 9.62% compared to Transocean's net margin of -33.69%. Tidewater's return on equity of 13.37% beat Transocean's return on equity.
95.1% of Tidewater shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.7% of Transocean shares are held by institutional investors. 9.6% of Tidewater shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.5% of Transocean shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Tidewater beats Transocean on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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