SES vs. CAE, SPB, RRX, BLDP, ADN, ALO, NVX, TEV, AXR, and BQE
Should you be buying Secure Energy Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Secure Energy Services include CAE (CAE), Superior Plus (SPB), Raging River Exploration (RRX), Ballard Power Systems (BLDP), Acadian Timber (ADN), Alio Gold Inc. (ALO.TO) (ALO), NV Gold (NVX), Tervita (TEV), Alexco Resource (AXR), and BQE Water (BQE).
CAE (TSE:CAE) and Secure Energy Services (TSE:SES) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
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 3.5%. 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.
In the previous week, Secure Energy Services had 5 more articles in the media than CAE. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Secure Energy Services and 0 mentions for CAE. Secure Energy Services' average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat CAE's score of 1.05 indicating that Secure Energy Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
76.4% of CAE shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.2% 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 stock will outperform the market over the long term.
CAE currently has a consensus price target of C$30.60, indicating a potential upside of 25.62%. Secure Energy Services has a consensus price target of C$13.97, indicating a potential upside of 21.57%. Given CAE's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe CAE is more favorable than Secure Energy Services.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Summary
Secure Energy Services beats CAE on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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