Select Water Solutions (WTTR) Competitors

Select Water Solutions (NYSE:WTTR) and Veren (NYSE:VRN) are both business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, risk, community ranking and media sentiment.

Is WTTR or VRN more profitable?

Veren has a net margin of 26.93% compared to Select Water Solutions' net margin of 2.11%. Veren's return on equity of 12.23% beat Select Water Solutions' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Select Water Solutions	2.11%	3.48%	2.37%
Veren	26.93%	12.23%	6.80%

Do analysts recommend WTTR or VRN?

Select Water Solutions presently has a consensus target price of $14.83, indicating a potential upside of 63.80%. Veren has a consensus target price of $12.67, indicating a potential upside of 110.76%. Given Veren's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Veren is more favorable than Select Water Solutions.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Select Water Solutions	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	2 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.50
Veren	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.33

Do insiders & institutionals believe in WTTR or VRN?

81.7% of Select Water Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.4% of Veren shares are held by institutional investors. 8.4% of Select Water Solutions shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Veren shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Which has more volatility & risk, WTTR or VRN?

Select Water Solutions has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Veren has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor WTTR or VRN?

Select Water Solutions received 321 more outperform votes than Veren when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Veren an outperform vote while only 67.15% of users gave Select Water Solutions an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Select Water Solutions	Outperform Votes 325 67.15%	Underperform Votes 159 32.85%
Veren	Outperform Votes 4 100.00%	Underperform Votes No Votes

Which has stronger valuation and earnings, WTTR or VRN?

Veren has higher revenue and earnings than Select Water Solutions. Veren is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Select Water Solutions, 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
Select Water Solutions	$1.46B	0.75	$74.40M	$0.34	26.64
Veren	$4.41B	0.83	$422.48M	$0.32	18.78

Does the media favor WTTR or VRN?

In the previous week, Veren's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Select Water Solutions' score of -1.00 indicating that Veren is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Select Water Solutions	Negative
Veren	Neutral

Is WTTR or VRN a better dividend stock?

Select Water Solutions pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Veren pays an annual dividend of $0.31 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Select Water Solutions pays out 82.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Veren pays out 96.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Select Water Solutions has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years.

Summary

Select Water Solutions and Veren tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.