CET vs. PD, PHX, ESI, XDC, WRG, AKT.A, SDI, QI, WCP, and ERF
Should you be buying Cathedral Energy Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cathedral Energy Services include Precision Drilling (PD), PHX Energy Services (PHX), Ensign Energy Services (ESI), Xtreme Drilling (XDC), Western Energy Services (WRG), AKITA Drilling (AKT.A), Stampede Drilling (SDI), Q Investments (QI), Whitecap Resources (WCP), and Enerplus (ERF).
Precision Drilling (TSE:PD) and Cathedral Energy Services (TSE:CET) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, risk, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
62.8% of Precision Drilling shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.1% of Cathedral Energy Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of Precision Drilling shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 21.6% of Cathedral Energy Services shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Precision Drilling has higher revenue and earnings than Cathedral Energy Services. Precision Drilling is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cathedral Energy Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Precision Drilling pays an annual dividend of C$0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Cathedral Energy Services pays an annual dividend of C$0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Precision Drilling pays out 1.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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.
Precision Drilling has a beta of 2.9, indicating that its share price is 190% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cathedral Energy Services has a beta of 2.64, indicating that its share price is 164% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Precision Drilling received 416 more outperform votes than Cathedral Energy Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.97% of users gave Precision Drilling an outperform vote while only 66.76% of users gave Cathedral Energy Services an outperform vote.
Precision Drilling currently has a consensus price target of C$125.70, indicating a potential upside of 24.23%. Cathedral Energy Services has a consensus price target of C$1.80, indicating a potential downside of 72.73%. Given Cathedral Energy Services' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Precision Drilling is more favorable than Cathedral Energy Services.
Precision Drilling has a net margin of 12.06% compared to Precision Drilling's net margin of 3.71%. Cathedral Energy Services' return on equity of 15.46% beat Precision Drilling's return on equity.
In the previous week, Precision Drilling had 1 more articles in the media than Cathedral Energy Services. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Precision Drilling and 2 mentions for Cathedral Energy Services. Precision Drilling's average media sentiment score of 0.44 beat Cathedral Energy Services' score of 0.36 indicating that Cathedral Energy Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Precision Drilling beats Cathedral Energy Services on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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