AKT.A vs. CET, XDC, WRG, SDI, QI, PD, PHX, ESI, EU, and STEP
Should you be buying AKITA Drilling stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AKITA Drilling include Cathedral Energy Services (CET), Xtreme Drilling (XDC), Western Energy Services (WRG), Stampede Drilling (SDI), Q Investments (QI), Precision Drilling (PD), PHX Energy Services (PHX), Ensign Energy Services (ESI), enCore Energy (EU), and STEP Energy Services (STEP). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
AKITA Drilling vs.
AKITA Drilling (TSE:AKT.A) and Cathedral Energy Services (TSE:CET) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
Cathedral Energy Services received 138 more outperform votes than AKITA Drilling when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.76% of users gave Cathedral Energy Services an outperform vote while only 53.29% of users gave AKITA Drilling an outperform vote.
Cathedral Energy Services has a net margin of 3.71% compared to AKITA Drilling's net margin of 2.60%. Cathedral Energy Services' return on equity of 12.31% beat AKITA Drilling's return on equity.
21.0% of AKITA Drilling shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.1% of Cathedral Energy Services shares are held by institutional investors. 17.6% of AKITA Drilling shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 21.6% of Cathedral Energy Services shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Cathedral Energy Services has higher revenue and earnings than AKITA Drilling. Cathedral Energy Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AKITA Drilling, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AKITA Drilling has a beta of 1.97, meaning that its stock price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cathedral Energy Services has a beta of 2.64, meaning that its stock price is 164% more volatile than the S&P 500.
AKITA Drilling pays an annual dividend of C$0.34 per share and has a dividend yield of 18.2%. Cathedral Energy Services pays an annual dividend of C$0.16 per share. AKITA Drilling pays out 309.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Cathedral Energy Services pays out 200.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
AKITA Drilling currently has a consensus target price of C$3.75, indicating a potential upside of 100.53%. Cathedral Energy Services has a consensus target price of C$1.50, indicating a potential upside of 0.00%. Given AKITA Drilling's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe AKITA Drilling is more favorable than Cathedral Energy Services.
In the previous week, AKITA Drilling had 1 more articles in the media than Cathedral Energy Services. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for AKITA Drilling and 0 mentions for Cathedral Energy Services. AKITA Drilling's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Cathedral Energy Services' score of 0.00 indicating that AKITA Drilling is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Cathedral Energy Services beats AKITA Drilling on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:AKT.A) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
