PD vs. BB, DH, LSPD, DCBO, ABST, U, AI, DV, FSY, and GDS
Should you be buying Precision Drilling stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Precision Drilling include BlackBerry (BB), DH (DH), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), Docebo (DCBO), Absolute Software (ABST), Uranium Participation (U), Atrium Mortgage Investment (AI), Dolly Varden Silver (DV), Forsys Metals (FSY), and Gendis (GDS). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
Precision Drilling vs. Its Competitors
Precision Drilling (TSE:PD) and BlackBerry (TSE:BB) are both computer software companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
Precision Drilling has a beta of 1.737601, meaning that its share price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackBerry has a beta of 0.937115, meaning that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Precision Drilling presently has a consensus target price of C$95.14, indicating a potential upside of 19.60%. BlackBerry has a consensus target price of C$4.75, indicating a potential downside of 13.16%. Given Precision Drilling's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Precision Drilling is more favorable than BlackBerry.
16.5% of Precision Drilling shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.9% of BlackBerry shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of Precision Drilling shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of BlackBerry shares are held by 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.
In the previous week, BlackBerry had 1 more articles in the media than Precision Drilling. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for BlackBerry and 0 mentions for Precision Drilling. Precision Drilling's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled BlackBerry'saverage media sentiment score.
Precision Drilling has higher revenue and earnings than BlackBerry. BlackBerry is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Precision Drilling, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Precision Drilling has a net margin of 12.53% compared to BlackBerry's net margin of -21.16%. Precision Drilling's return on equity of 14.96% beat BlackBerry's return on equity.
Summary
Precision Drilling beats BlackBerry on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of TSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (TSE:PD) was last updated on 9/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
