PSD vs. E, HWO, MCB, SHLE, STEP, CFW, TOT, YGR, TNZ, and QEC
Should you be buying Pulse Seismic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pulse Seismic include Enterprise Group (E), High Arctic Energy Services (HWO), McCoy Global (MCB), Source Energy Services (SHLE), STEP Energy Services (STEP), Calfrac Well Services (CFW), Total Energy Services (TOT), Yangarra Resources (YGR), Tenaz Energy (TNZ), and Questerre Energy (QEC). These companies are all part of the "energy" sector.
Enterprise Group (TSE:E) and Pulse Seismic (TSE:PSD) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Enterprise Group currently has a consensus price target of C$1.33, suggesting a potential upside of 23.15%. Given Pulse Seismic's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Enterprise Group is more favorable than Pulse Seismic.
Pulse Seismic has a net margin of 38.35% compared to Pulse Seismic's net margin of 18.42%. Enterprise Group's return on equity of 50.74% beat Pulse Seismic's return on equity.
Enterprise Group received 125 more outperform votes than Pulse Seismic when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.54% of users gave Enterprise Group an outperform vote while only 65.07% of users gave Pulse Seismic an outperform vote.
Enterprise Group pays an annual dividend of C$0.69 per share and has a dividend yield of 63.9%. Pulse Seismic pays an annual dividend of C$0.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Enterprise Group pays out 575.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Pulse Seismic pays out 21.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Enterprise Group has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pulse Seismic has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
25.6% of Pulse Seismic shares are held by institutional investors. 45.8% of Enterprise Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.8% of Pulse Seismic shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Pulse Seismic has higher revenue and earnings than Enterprise Group. Pulse Seismic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Enterprise Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Enterprise Group had 9 more articles in the media than Pulse Seismic. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Enterprise Group and 4 mentions for Pulse Seismic. Enterprise Group's average media sentiment score of 0.36 beat Pulse Seismic's score of 0.16 indicating that Pulse Seismic is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Pulse Seismic beats Enterprise Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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