CAE (CAE) Competitors

CAE (TSE:CAE) and Secure Energy Services (TSE:SES) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and media sentiment.

Is CAE or SES a better dividend stock?

CAE pays an annual dividend of C$0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Secure Energy Services pays an annual dividend of C$0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. CAE pays out -41.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Secure Energy Services pays out 20.0% 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.

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of CAE or SES?

76.4% of CAE shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.8% of Secure Energy Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of CAE shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Secure Energy Services shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Is CAE or SES more profitable?

Secure Energy Services has a net margin of 5.62% compared to CAE's net margin of -7.39%. Secure Energy Services' return on equity of 50.56% beat CAE's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CAE	-7.39%	-7.43%	2.79%
Secure Energy Services	5.62%	50.56%	8.15%

Do analysts rate CAE or SES?

CAE presently has a consensus target price of C$30.60, suggesting a potential upside of 22.79%. Secure Energy Services has a consensus target price of C$13.97, suggesting a potential upside of 8.62%. Given CAE's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe CAE is more favorable than Secure Energy Services.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CAE	1 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.38
Secure Energy Services	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.75

Which has more volatility & risk, CAE or SES?

CAE has a beta of 1.91, meaning that its share price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Secure Energy Services has a beta of 2.43, meaning that its share price is 143% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor CAE or SES?

Secure Energy Services received 111 more outperform votes than CAE when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.75% of users gave Secure Energy Services an outperform vote while only 58.03% of users gave CAE an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
CAE	Outperform Votes 354 58.03%	Underperform Votes 256 41.97%
Secure Energy Services	Outperform Votes 465 61.75%	Underperform Votes 288 38.25%

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, CAE or SES?

Secure Energy Services has higher revenue and earnings than CAE. CAE is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Secure Energy Services, 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
CAE	C$4.34B	1.83	-C$341.80M	-C$1.07	-23.29
Secure Energy Services	C$9.96B	0.31	C$560M	C$2.00	6.43

Does the media prefer CAE or SES?

In the previous week, CAE had 3 more articles in the media than Secure Energy Services. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for CAE and 7 mentions for Secure Energy Services. Secure Energy Services' average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat CAE's score of 0.55 indicating that Secure Energy Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
CAE	5 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Secure Energy Services	4 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Secure Energy Services beats CAE on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.